St Malo, 1st September

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In  New Zealand dad awoke to a full white out of thick snow, welcome to the first day of spring. Happily here the summer came back and it was blue skies and sunshine all day.

we parked at a park and ride that lets you sleep the night and includes a bus ticket for the day.

Which is good as the rest of the town is very unfriendly to motorhomes.

We got the bus to the walled old town that is the old corsair ( pirate ) and merchant town.

the tents at the bottom of the wall had artists selling paintings maybe I should sell my fish paintings

We then spent all afternoon wandering the ramparts, eating lunch and watching the tide rush in.

It is a really nice place to visit and has beaches around the walls so a long weekend from the Uk would be easy ( ferries from 3 Uk cities). 

The corsairs and the merchants who imported silver from Portugal built the big houses, a lot were bombed in the war but have been rebuilt.


Sea pool when the tide came in it covered everything but the top board, not such a scary jump then

I got the photo mid jump but it looks like he is standing on the sand.....

it is that way..

door made in 1652, amazing that it hasn't been replaced

part of an exhibition we went to, he does amazing stuff
link here : Seth

Cathedral got new windows after the bombing in 1945

it had a beautiful alter 

spot the pirate  the one with the mask or without?
just sand and people


the water came in such a rush there are people still on the building
 in the photo

and now all the water was sand an hour ago
we were sitting at the end of the poles
a perfume sample is sprayed on a ribbon then you can wear to check you like it




Comments

  1. Shirl1 September 2020 at 23:16

    Looked at your Seth link - I like those trompe l'oeil (haven't verified spelling so that may be wrong) ones!

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