Crazy painting

Just love colour, this painting I did is full of it.

St Malo - Jour sept

All good things come to an end and today is the final day in St Malo. What an awesome week this has been. The weather has been perfect. The Ibis hotel was great, made special by BB paying for an ocean view as we could watch the huge tide come and go. The staff were so pleasant. I've enjoyed each day, starting with a run, brunch at the old town, sitting watching the artist paint, watching the people on the beach or climbing Grand Be or Petit Be. Climbing Rocks or swimming in the pool, listening to all the buskers, or watching all the people sitting eating all the different fruits de mer.

This is definitely one of the nicest places to visit in France, hopefully will be back next year for the tdf.

Saw the Brittany Ferries leaving this morning with all the people standing on the back waving, bet they were all as sad as I am about leaving.

Saw this sign outside a shop - --Bring it back.....................

St Malo - jour six

A relaxing day of walking, window shopping , photo taking, drawing, exactly what a holiday should be. My bird friend came to our window so many times today, yelling at us to feed him, but made him wait til dinner time.

Know.we have 3 tier sponges but not here, it's 6. This shop was packed with people eating all these delicious cakes. Very tempted to join them.

St Malo - jour cinq

Can't  believe our luck with the weather, another perfect day. Not too hot or windy. Nice run this morning for about 55 minutes. Usual walk to the old town for grocery shopping. Brunch on the park bench, watching the people go by. I am certainly in holiday mode. Not in a hurry for anything.. Today's adventure was a walk to Grand Be. Only takes about 12 minutes to get there from the hotel. Walked to the top and looked over most of St Malo. So many people at the top picnicing, was a busy little place. Walked back to the old town and took a few more photos, you can't help yourself as this place is so pretty. Sat on the beach for a good hour, just relaxing and being entertained by all the people. So many joggers here, up and down the beach, all different shapes and styles

St Malo - jour quatre

Another beautiful day in St. Malo. Weather perfect at about 22, sunny and not too windy for this part of the world. Tourist everywhere, the Brittany Ferries overnighter arrives at about 7.30 bringing a new lot of tourist each day and this little town thrives on it. Started the day with a run, I've ran right and left from the hotel, today I went up. Should be able to cover most of St Mali at this rate.

Brunch in the old town as usual,, fresh baguette fromage and tomate. Love it, never tire of it. I stayed and watched the painters. The artist doing comical portraits were in demand this morning. I watched him do these two sisters, they giggled thru most of it.  I went back and did some watercolour painting myself, much harder than acrylic painting,, but all good fun and very relaxing.Each day the buskers are out, all very entertaining.

Pizza for dinner - aubergine courgette oignon champignons

View from Bed tonight

Ahh, what can I say

St Malo Jour trois

Great day today, first off 1 hour run, headed to the boardwalk, it's 20min to the end and back. Then ran around to the boats. Got some nice photos, then ran along to the end of the pier and got a few shots of the light house. BB saw me, caught up to me and we had a few photo moments. Showered, then into town for the daily shopping, spent 8euro on boire yogourt tomate et baguette, as we plan to have our long awaited pizza tonight.

Stopped and watched the painters again for a short while, then bb and I did the planned walk to Port  Little B.  Only problem was the water wasn't completely out when we got there. BB, being the patient man he is (not) striped down to his undies and swam over. He then walked part way back and  checked it was ok for me to walk over with camera etc without getting wet, only problem was getting my shorts wet  you could see straight thru to my undies, black poker dot. Hehe. We were the only ones on the island at this stage so not so bad. We climb to the Red Door of the fort over all the rocks, photo moments, then walked back to the hotel. Took two hours all up , but boy it was fun. Bit of painting for me, this watercolour painting is turning out to be harder than anticipated, but giving it a go and making the most of the learning op.

PIZZA for dinner, was it nice. Home made tomato paste on a very thin crust, only a small amount of cheese, zucchini and eggplant. Sprinkled with the hot oil sauce. Could easily have eaten 2 between us, it was so nice.