Sauntering around St Malo

We woke this morning after the best sleep we’ve had on the holiday so far - over 9 hours in a very comfortable bed.

After a bit of doom-scrolling (hard to give up completely!), we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast.

Today’s first task was walking the amazing (as you’ll see in the photos) St Malo fortifications. These were paid for by King Louis XV, and were supervised by Vauban, the top military architect of his age.

The walk reputedly takes about 45 minutes (longer for old crocks!), and we had completed about three-quarters of the walk before Des needed a) coffee, and b) retail therapy.

Today being Ascension Thursday, it was a public holiday until lunchtime, but we found a shop open and made a couple of purchases.

We also fell in love with an art print of a lugger, but it was 1.5m square. We could have rolled it up, but we don’t have a bit of wall big enough anywhere in our apartment to hang it! Walked away☹️.

Back to the hotel for Chablis and a charcuterie (cold meat) platter, and a couple of hours eating and reading books in the sun.

We had booked a boat cruise at 5.15, but it was not to be. The jetty was about 20 minutes drive away from the hotel, and when I tried to get a taxi at 4.30, reception couldn’t get one till after 5.15. So we had to let that go😡.

Off to an organ concert tonight in St Vincent’s Cathedral.

Yesterday we used the St Malo flag as the lead photo, but it wasn’t quite clear that St Malo’s emblem is a white ermine - see photo.Read more