All that we could see in St. Malo

 A few years ago a friend highly recommended the Pulitzer prize winning book, All The Light We Cannot See.  The book was set during WWII and much of it occurs in the town of St. Malo, France.  Ever since I read the book I longed to see St. Malo.  Lucky for us its only about a six hour ride from Brussels!

On our way to St. Malo we did a speedy stop at Omaha Beach in Normandy.  We plan to go back and spend more time exploring all the WWII sites, but this was just a preview.

 Below is the sculpture that is on Omaha Beach.

 The American Cemetery, it had been so long since we have visited that they now have a visitors center!

 The sculpture that looks toward the rows of crosses.

We stayed in a tiny town in an old stone cottage which had been a stable but was totally redone into a cute house.

Our cute little house!

 Charlie loved the fact that the farmer down the way had a really nice swingset and when we went to check it out, in French he said something like, "It is possible"...so Charlie became a regular!

Where every 8 year old boy belongs!

He also had cool donkeys right next to the swingset so we had fun feeding them some apples.

St. Malo is an old walled city and we had a blast walking the walls and going out to the tidal island right next to it.  We read that the walls were over 25 feet thick...here we are about to go through them..

This is walking along the ramparts...look how much room we have to walk!

There was a vacation week carnival set up...here is the "American Circus" funhouse

 The ferries from England pull in here...see the one to the left.

Should we launch him?

From the beach with the walls behind me...

It was low tide so we walked to the first of two tidal islands...the one to the right...

Sisters!

From the island, the town is behind us...

There was a tidal swimming pool complete with diving tower...we wanted Kelly to swim it and show the video to her swim coach, but we figured she would be sick for the rest of the season...

Goofy sister picture!

Charlie wanted me to put this picture in because he thought the merry go round with a seat was very cool!

A final view of the city before we headed out.

 Our next stop was a little beach town to the North called Dinard, which had a promenade walk along the sea.  From the walk you could still see St. Malo in the distance, the walk came with some pretty scary warning signs and no guard rails...

These actually rivaled some of those scary signs from our Africa days!

Charlie waiting for the tide to come in and splash him!

Beach houses on the cliffs.

The cliff walk got scary for me to watch as we headed back to our car, Charlie had no fear and I was just happy to get him back to the car dry and in one piece!

Sunset on the walk...