Well, they have certainly done a lot of work here in the last four years. They’ve put in a new road which is open to the sea underneath, and taken out all the old car parks near the Mont. There is a huge new car park and a shuttle bus service (you can walk if you want – we did – 45 minutes each way) and the shuttle buses are push-me-pull-you so they don’t need to turn round at the end of the trip.

They have still got the builders in, and unfortunately we had arrived at a neap tide! Apparently the bay has the biggest tidal swings in continental Europe, and we were there at the short end, which meant the water never reached the Mont! At a spring tide – the big swing between low and high – the water recedes 14km behind the Mont, and then rushes in and surrounds it. Anyway, what this all meant was that we didn’t see the sea here, only mud flats. We will watch out for that next time!

Colin got this really great shot of Saint-Malo this morning.

We have been here before, so the challenge was to get some photos we hadn’t already done.

Definitely hadn’t got this one before!

Got this before, but not with sunshine. We got soaked on this pier yesterday, it was very windy and the waves were huge and splashing all over the place. Notice how the people match the fence and the life belt:-)

Fort National. You had to be tall enough to see over the top of the ramparts to get this one.

The old town from the ramparts.

Shorties could manage this one.

 

The ramparts and sea defences.

A lovely old square.

A back alley. Tres French with the bike, n’est ce pas?

I just love the reference to gold diggers:-) Lost in translation?

And this – “made their fortune from captured ships” – trying hard not to say pirates!