The original idea was to explore the Atlantic coast of France working my way through Nantes and then up to Brest in Brittany and east to St. Malo for ferry to UK, but once understanding the work added because of the rolling 2/3 off/on rail strike, I decided to just cut this short and go to where I could understand what people were saying. As I recall it was about 180 miles to St. Malo via the train but they are pretty efficient when they run. After a nice ride with beautiful French countrysides to see I arrived in the seaport town of St Malo. Under 2 miles to the hotel that was less than a half from the morning ferry. Once again I start with the view from my hotel room
St Malo is a small (44k) city on the French side of the English Channel. Founded by the Gauls in the 1st century BC, this link is worth a glance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Malo. The weather here seems near perfect year round.
One nice things about walled cities, hard to get lost. I left the hotel and took a right keeping to the massive walls until time to enter the city. Tumbled out right were I started.
Ticket in pocket!
Robert Surcouf was a privateer in the 1790’s – 1810 so basically a licensed pirate, and is buried here.
Just off the beach there is the additional defense of another fort.
Tomorrow Jersey, Channel Islands, a UK protectorate so passport clearance.
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