St Malo

Today we caught a bus to St Malo.  The 1 km walk from the bus stop  to the main gate of the walled part of the city was through a lot of very fancy boat building yards.

St Malo was very heavily bombed during last WW but has been completely rebuilt as it was. We were lacking in enthusiasm to wander yet more old streets, so headed for the cathedral which again was interesting because of the 2 distinctly different architectural styles.  The nave looked Norman to us but was described in the book as Anglo Norman, a term we had heard frequently in Normandy. The choir  was Gothic. There was what I thought was a very interesting modern altar.

I had a map copied from a guidebook and a map from Google but neither seemed to match each other or the streets around us so we just wandered in one direction  knowing we would eventually come to walls, which we did. We walked along the top the walls for a bit then went back to the bus stop.

I have decided that sampling as much of the local fare as possible is more important than avoiding gluten and sugar as I usually do. This afternoon we had some ' far breton',  a sort of tart with a pastry base, then prunes then set custard like stuff ( Noel says junket texture)   Very nice.  Apparently there are savoury versions but I have not seen any. A few days ago we had some 'kouign amann' - layers of pastry ( though the book says bread)  soaked in something sweet. 

We had some andouille a few days ago as part of a meat platter and I rememebered I had read of it as a speciality, but not what I read.  We quite liked it. I have just reread my long translation of the French guidebook - incuding ' pork wrapped in beef  intestines'  and am pleased I had forgotten what it was.