St. Malo

I also went to St. Malo this weekend.  It's a fortified sea town an hour train ride away from Rennes.  The old town was really quite neat.  All the houses had this orange lichen stuff on the roof because of the humidity.  There is a castle there that we could go in for free because of this thing that happens in Europe called Journées de Patrimoine which allows anyone to enter into a city's historic places for a free guided tour.  And it was this weekend.  But in the castle, you could go up into the keep, and then eventually you could go all the way up into the tallest tower. Did it. I got a pretty sweet view of the city from there and the beach.  The stairs were not wide enough for two people to pass and were super steep.  It was fun. There is this fort on this rock thing that you can't get to when the tide is in, so since it was out, I went over there, but I didn't think it would be worth paying to go in, so I walked around on the rocks.  I am super thankful that I didn't fall or anything cause that may have been the end of my ankle. Then you could walk along the walls, so me and one of the people with me did that.  But there was another little island-when-the-tide-is-in, so we went over there cause there was no fort. There were some wild blackberry bushes there that we snacked from. Also, they have these pools on the beach that are fed by the tide and when the tide goes out, the pool remains.  It was neat.  Then it was time to go back, so we did. Trains are pretty nice here. The picture was taken from the second island.