April 22 Full Day in St Malo

  Today Barbara wasn't feeling great, so we had a quiet day. 

 

We went into the St. Malo Cathedral; it was significantly damaged in WWII, but has been rededicated and rebuilt in parts.  We walked down to the Bain aux Dames for coffee; it

overlooks the salt water swimming baths which were submerged today due to high tide. We saw them yesterday at low tide. There were lots of people with children digging in the sand and having fun.

After that, we walked around the ramparts and then along the corniche along the waterfront outside the ramparts. We are still so impressed by the wooden breakwaters. They are made of oak, 21 feet in height and there are about 3,000 of them. They were installed 200 years ago.

   We went to Bergamote for a late lunch, a highly rated Breton restaurant. Barbara had a salmon galette and Mark had a chicken pot pie and salad which was more like a quiche than an American-style pot pie. Delicious.

    We walked to La Maison Beurre Bordier, a famous butter store. We read all about butter, but did not buy any as we don't have storage, plus a 'stick' was about 15 Euros, too!

    We spent a few hours figuring out how to put Mark's photos into Barbara's iPhone library in order to put them into the blog. We think we may have figured it out!

     We took an evening walk. Mark got a baguette at the Boulangerie de la Cathedrale, recommended by Jecca and then got some cheese and ham to eat at the hotel.