St Malo N48 39 W2 01

Gryphon II
Chris and Lorraine Marchant
Fri 3 Oct 2008 17:38
We decided to visit this fascinating old town with its high walls , narrow streets and ghetto of restaurants. We shunned the marina which was gave too long a walk into town and moored up off the town key which was quite busy. It is difficult to find an ordinary shop within the walls but the town still retains some charm and to walk around its walls is well worth the time. The views over the docks and the rocky seaward approaches contrast with the tight roads and tall buildings in their dour granite behind the walls . On one side the walls front directly onto the sea and the local tourist shops had some very dramatic pictures of waves driven by a north-westerly wind breaking over the wall. The local town council had placed sizeable tree trunks embedded in the sand at the foot of the wall to protect it but they appear to be doing little in the photos.
The forecast promissed some fine weather so we decided to visit the Rance  behind the tidal barrage.

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