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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Saint Malo by Day, Paris by Night

New adventure. Yay! Less money, booooo. Anyhow, took an Easter trip to Saint Malo this weekend [Brittany, for those who don't know] with Kat, Sofia, Zivile, and Rose. Left at 630am arrived around 1030. Not bad. Took a nice walk down some random road, everything was still closed. Okay. Checked in with Kat, waited for the other girls. Check. Then went to breakfast.
Galette and Coffee. Mmmm. Also had a dark chocolate/banana crepe. BEST crepe I've ever had. Ever. Ever. Ever. I'm so craving it right now. After brunch, decided to walk off the 1000 calories we ate during brunch, so we went for a walk. Stumbled across a beautiful little alcove/way to the beach and decided to film my video project there. Kat and I stopped while the girls went on. Filming this weekend was great. I expect best location prize if there ever is one. Got a little lost, ended up hiking, which was AMAZING, saw this kind of view, but better...and then went to the old city. It began to pour so we jumped in a cafe and had teatime. I'm so getting into this cafe culture. Still raining, we decided to walk on top of the walls around the fort [old city], but it began raining harder. Ran into another restaurant and had mussels. It was amazing. My entire weekend revolved around food. It's probably the best way to plan a weekend. We decided to go home and get some work done, but Zivile, Sofia, and Rose had nothing to do so they watched a movie. We chilled. It was exciting. Next day headed to Mont Saint Michel, an hour and a half outside of St Malo.Gorgeous, huh? Really touristy, glad we didn't stay there. But we filmed here too. Corridors and bright green. Amazing. Started to rain here, too. I thought the tide would come in and we wouldn't be able to get out. See, this place here, has only one way in and one way out. This road gets covered during high tide and whoever is on this little piece of land, can't escape until the tide goes down. Crazy huh? There's also only 72 people who actually live in this city. Gossip city. But, overall. Pretty amazing.

Headed back to Saint Malo, went to the beach because it got so beautiful and went rock climbing. For free! Well, we went on the rocks and decided to climb to the other side of the beach. Pretty badass.Got hungry. This hike/adventure was about an hour/hour and a half or so. We were also lugging our bags and camera equipment. Went to this little place called "Les Chiens de Guet" [The dogs of Guet] and had the best meal of our trip there. Steak with potatoes, kir breton, and crème brulée for a mere 23 euros. So. Good. We decided to go to the casino after, but without our passports we were rejected. Fail. Wanted to win some money to spend on more food. Oh well. Took a walk home. Did some more work. Sleep.

Last day. Woke up. Got ready. Got caught by the building manager for sleeping 5 girls in a 4 person room. Had to lug all our baggage and film equipment around for the day. Didn't find the flea market that was supposed to be open. Rejected by 2 creperies because our baggage took up too much space during lunch hour. Only success was filming. Yes. Had another teatime. Had another crepe. Another galette. Left for Paris. Trainride was crowded. Everyone was coming back from their Easter vacation. Got some work done. I have roughly 48 seconds for my video. Out of 3:50. Fuck. Had dinner with Katherine. Found that the place we wanted to go was closin, and the place we ate at was extremely touristy and expensive. Fail. Tried to find gelato after dinner. Got to the place, they were closed. Fail. Katherine got myberry [Pinkberry] and got yelled at a queen for not having a euro because he didn't have one to give back to her. Fail. Found a gelateria after getting myberry. Fail. Decided to walk around and found great bars that we later figured out were for gay men. Fail. Overall, a fail day. S'all good though. I hope to have a better day tomorrow. Great weekend. Happy Easter.

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