03 February 2007

Le Week-end à Saint Malo et Mont Saint Michel : Part One

Our orientation weekend trip was to Bretagne (Brittany), a region on the northern French coast. We arrived at our adorable hotel (pretty sweet deal) just outside the small, old walled-in town of Saint Malo. The streets were cobblestoned and filled with restaurants, boutiques, and of course patisseries. It’s a touristy town because you wouldn’t really want to live there, but for a weekend, it’s lovely and a lot of fun. We checked in and tout d’abord (right away) scattered into the town to find a place for lunch. We all had galettes (crêpes salées, or, lunch crêpes – filled with things like meat, cheese, and eggs, rather than crêpes sucrées – jelly, sugar, chocolate, etc.) since it’s a specialty of the area.






As Susannah cleverly commented, this photo is indicative of our respective identities: Flavia the rockstar posing in the window, and me, the nerd, consulting the map in the info packet they gave us. Of course.


there's always time for a patisserie break


Hailey and I in front of one of said boutiques.

We then met up for a tour with Sabrina, starting atop the fortifications around the town, and descending to the beach, climbing up steps onto giant hills with beautiful views.





la plage


yotam, oliver & ray






admiring the town


girls in black jackets with colorful scarves, atop a grassy hill in the French countryside: myself, Susannah, and Hailey


the Susannah kick-back laugh… classic.

1 comment:

Flavia Menezes said...

SUCH a fun weekend! and you have some pretty amazing pictures you'd been keeping from us, huh, good thing you've blogged them now ;) and yes, thanks for reinforcing susannah's analysis of us in yet another online forum, excellent.