Saint Malo

A view over the city wall of Saint-Malo!

The eternal chase

These horses were running in circles for all their lives. I got them at the finish line. This caroussell was standing right infront of the ville close of Saint-Malo.

Oysters

Here are the oysters in the small market in Cancale. We, of course, got a platter to eat right on the beach.

The Oysters of Bélon

Of course we got served some Bélon oysters right with the view of the estuary.

Bélon

We drove through Brittany on a long road trip and on one of the final stages we stopped in Belon to learn about the world famous oysters.

Pirates!

Pirate ship in Brittany - at least by the flag.

Overwhelming Bakery

French bakeries just make you hungry. This is my contribution from a bakery I visited in the ville close of Concarneau.

Flowing Flowers

The moat around the city of Concarneau - Ville Close.

Tempus Fugit

A sun dial on the walls of the fortifications of Concarneau.

Concarneau Harbour

Some dramatic reflections made this harbour shine more. Concarneau, Brittany.

A statue for the cormorant

This statue for the cormorant was sitting by the water side in Concarneau. It is not the first cormorant statue I have seen in fishing towns. Obviously people love this bird in many places.

Fish

I do not know why there were fish chosen for decoration in this church in Brittany. But I thought they were pretty impressive.

Côte Granit Rose

The Côte Granit Rose is a really amazing and very diverse.

Secret Model

I found this secret new model on a field nearby. I am not quite sure what kind of animal this is since it was wearing a face mask but zebra is on the list of options, right?

Ein Erlkönig! Ich habe dieses neue Modell auf einer Wiese in der Nähe gefunden. Ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher, was für eine neue Rasse das ist, weil es eine Gesichtsmaske trug, aber ich glaube, Zebra ist nicht ganz fernliegend, oder?

Hindu Temple

We often come by the Hindu Temple. We don't make it to the temple festivities every year but it is worth a closer look on average days as well. Especially after the recent painting it looks amazing.

Church Yard

The lot around this church was pretty and gave the church some space.

Church Doors - Memento Mori

I found these wonderful, intricate wooden doors in Brittany on the side building of a church.

The Church of Lampaul

This church made us stop on the drive through town. We got to walk around it in beautiful sunshine and to go inside.

County Roads in Brittany

Like in many rural areas, Brittany has a lot of roads that ly deep beneath the landscape.

Lighthouse

The lighthouse in the harbour of Roscoff, from another angle but the same night as the one I showed last week.

Night view

Another one from the streets of Roscoff at night.

Roscoff by night

Night time walk by the outskirts of Roscoff.

Plouescat Market Hall

When continuing our road trip through Brittany we came to visit the awesome timber frame market halls of Plouescat.

Church and Birds

The church towers in northern Brittany were very diverse and changing up in style. What was pretty common with them was the amount of ravens circeling them and landing on them.

The harbour is filled

Here is an image of the harbour of Roscoff with the tide fully in. Do you remember the images I showed a few weeks ago about the empty harbour? Look back in the blog history and see what it looked like just hours before these images here with the bottom of the harbour fully exposed and all the ships on the dry.

Lighthouse at night

The lighthouse of Roscoff at night, with Venus just to the right of it.

Night in Roscoff

In Roscoff at the beginning of the night.

Roscoff, Brittany, France, Easter 2015

The Church of Roscoff

When walking from our hotel to downtown in search of a place for dinner we came by the city church. The towers with the see through building style are really common in the area of Roscoff and seem something like a local specialty.

The water is coming back

As the water was coming back we left the view and checked into our hotel in a nice, local place not too far away from here.

The man in the Harbour

If a man was in the harbour, all the way on the bottom of the basin, I would normally be worried. 

This here, though, was no issue for me at all. It was more a question of waiting for the right moment when the man, dressed in dark stepped infront of the part of the wall that was lit brightly to contrast off of it.

Roscoff, rising tide, easter 2015.

The harbour

This harbour was so remarkable to us that we took a series of images.

A dry harbour

When we got to Roscoff we had not intended to stay there for the night. We actually had not quite figured out, yet, where we wanted to stay, so we broke out the maps and started planning. While doing so we enjoyed the view of a very unusual harbour. Despite the fact that the high tide was coming in again already the water level was so low that the entire harbour was dry. People were walking around big ships and smaller boats on the ground of the harbour. 

We watched the water come back while deciding to stay and booked a hotel online that was just on the other side of downtown.

A window to the coast

This coastal layout is really amazing. Rocks piled up to the sky in some places and sometimes, if you climb around a little, you get to see some really pretty views through a window in the rock. This is the lighthouse next to the Eiffel house.

Côte Granit Rose, Brittany.

Coastal view

A view along Brittany's côte granit rose.

Easter 2015

A broken horn

The gargoyle in the top of the building I showed you yesterday was missing one horn. Good omen or bad?

Gargoyles

This building, on the hiking path at the côte granit rose, Brittany, was decorated with gargoyles, weathered down by the ocean weathers.

Eiffel House

Not a tower, not Paris. But the Eiffel House is located on the côte granit rose in Brittany.

Red Lighthouse

A light house on the Côte Granit Rose

The gate lit up

The sun right behind the gate. Hike on côte granit rose.