Saint Malo

           It was grey but it was not raining so I went to St. Malo anyway because if I wait for a day without rain I will never go. Anyway after living in England I should be used to going out in the rain.

            What a pretty coastal town. It still has the original wall surrounding the old part of the city, which of course I walked. The town is situated on the English Channel and it also has powerful tides.

        The beaches are very nice however I don’t know how some people could bath there, you could see  all the tourist with sweaters and coats and the locals were bathing on the sea, oh well, that shows you how one gets adapted to their place.

The town its very quant with the old streets with many cafes and restaurants, very picturesque, if it wasn’t for the rain I really would have enjoyed it.

FYI

Due to its location St. Malo was a very important port where people traded their goods.

Now, when we think pirates we think the Caribbean, however, St. Malo was the most famous pirate town of old times. These pirates worked for the King of France and their mission was to fight and ransack English ships. As long as they did that and gave all the loot to the King they had his protection, otherwise they could have been treated as any other pirate. If you saw as many pirates movies as I have you know what I am talking about.

When France signed the treated of Utrecht with England in 1713 the piracy stopped and so did the prosperity of the town.

All the restaurants were really nice and expensive, actually the whole town was expensive, so I went to the supermarket for a change and I had a sandwich.

Oh well, it really started to rain, so I stopped under a canopy of a store and waited for the rain to stop along a bunch of people from Mexico that were there on a tour. After waiting and waiting I decided to leave, it wasn’t stopping.