Tour de Cesson, Mont St. Michel, and St. Malo!

Well, even though this all happened two weeks ago I've just gotten home from Berlin and Strasbourg so I'm going to post it all now. Before heading to Berlin, Paul came to visit Brittany. The day after he got in we decided to take a walk to the Tour de Cesson which is a tower, now in ruins, built in 1395, that was used to guard St. Brieuc from pirate attacks. It was about a 45 minute walk and we also got to see the port. Unfortunately, we found out when we got there that the tower is private property and so we couldn't get right up next to it. (It seems like something the owners should think about changing since they could make a little money charging a euro or two to get close to it. Ah but there I go being a typical capitalist American).

Port area:


The port; the tower is visible on the hill on the right:


Tower on the top of the hill:


Ducklings we saw in someone's yard:


On Saturday we went to Mont St. Michel and St. Malo with Chantal and Clare. Mont St. Michel was totally incredible. It's technically in Normandie but its just over the border from Brittany so it wasn't too far of a drive. My pictures from Mont St. Michel don't do it justice at all so I'm going to wait 'til tomorrow to post any. (I'll have to steal them from others).
St. Malo was really nice too and the weather was warm enough that we could stick our toes in the water. By random happenstance we saw our friends Jessica, Otman and Rodrigo there as well.

In this picture you can see the ramparts of St. Malo as well as Paul and Chantal looking at Paul's camera.



Just some pretty views of the islands from the shore:




I'll add more pictures with people in them as I can collect them from others. Even though it was February it was warm enough to wade a bit! I'm tackling the Germany and Alsace posts tomorrow.