One day in St Malo - Brittany, France

St Malo was the next stop in our summer trip and we absolutely loved it!
When there - do walk along the walls, try the crepes and visit the tidal islands!
And, quoting Wikipedia:
Saint-Malo (UK: /sæ̃ ˈmɑːloʊ/, US: /ˌsæ̃ məˈloʊ/, French: [sɛ̃ malo] ; Gallo: Saent-Malô; Breton: Sant-Maloù) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany on the English Channel coast.
The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Allies heavily bombarded Saint-Malo, which was garrisoned by German troops. The city changed into a popular tourist centre, with a ferry terminal serving the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, as well as the Southern English settlements of Portsmouth, Hampshire and Poole, Dorset.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Malo

[@elenadarjoanca5992]

Am fost acolo mi-a plăcut, merci pt.video, au trecut cîțiva ani, mă bucur pt.că mi-am amintit.Romania, Brașov.

[@traciebecker6669]

I came to search and found your lovely video after reading All The Light We Cannot See. Much of the story takes place in this beautiful place.

[@OmEn2.]

Same I loved that book 👍

[@chriswright4677]

@@OmEn2.same here. Just avoid the awful Netflix “adaptation.”

[@juli8vdberg562]

Thank you… Saint Malo also has Europe’s fastest and highest vs lowest of tidal waves especially in the winter that is absolutely a sight to behold

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Thank you! We absolutely loved watching the tides while there. Even in the summer they are very impressive - can only imagine how strong they are in the winter!

[@MaxandJacqueline]

Thank you very much for the video! 🥰

[@LeslieBigos]

Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed your presentation. I really enjoyed the "still" photographs you interspersed.

[@pascallecorsaire962]

merci a vous pour cette superbe Ballade, et de superbes photos de notre Belle Ville de Saint-Malo ❤️

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Merci beaucoup Pascal!

[@mohdfairuzkhanbinpretkhanc2663]

Thanks for sharing. Your video is very informative. I love it

[@JeevanJoseph_itsjeevs]

Looks great!

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Thank you Jeevan!

[@user-jf2lf3wi1z]

Fantastic!!! Thank you so much! ❤️

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Thank you Алексей, glad you liked our video :)

[@cm4102]

I went to Saint Malo last year, very nice, I didn't manage to visit the whole city but this year I will definitely succeed. By the way, did you visit Rennes?

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Yes, we did! We've also made a short video of our visit to Rennes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3-1hpmqZ6uLqq8

[@user-lk6tu6jp7o]

Большое спасибо, посмотрела и вспомнила свою поездку, действительно очень красивые места, такая суровая красота.

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Спасибо! Мы очень рады, что прогулка понравилась! :)

[@titteryenot4524]

St. Malo, for me, is the prime exemplar of a war-blitzed city that managed to faithfully reconstruct itself without it feeling like a lame facsimile of the original razed town. Rouen comes a close second in this regard. If only Brest, Le Havre and Dunkirk, to name just 3 ignominious French candidates, had followed suit. You wander around intra-muros St. Malo, and unless someone pointed it out, you would have no inkling that this place was 80% destroyed. The feel is authentic. The rest of the town is worth a pop, too. The St. Servan suburb has a salty, unpretentious ambience, with decent walkable streets. Perhaps the *real* glory of St. Malo is natural: the sea and sand. It’s quite possibly the most glorious stretch of urban beach in all France. Even out-of-season it has a wonderful, sweeping allure that other, more reputed French city-beaches could only dream of.

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Thanks for a very informative comment Donald, we did not know about the St Servan suburb! Yes, totally agree about the beautiful nature there, and about St Malo looking very authentic despite having been raised to the ground during WW2. To be fair, Le Havre got World Heritage status thanks to its post-war reconstruction, although we still have not been able to visit and see with our own eyes what it looks and feels like. We quite like Rouen, although actually it did not occur to us that it suffered a lot during the war- it looked very nice indeed. So, apparently a good job done with reconstruction there, too.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@NataEugeneTravel Sorry, Le Havre is a grey, concrete disaster. Yes, it got World Heritage, but only for one reason: there is no place else like it; that is a post-war carbuncle of concrete. No one I know likes it, and if they do, they were born there and/or are paid by the local tourist board. I respect your right to an opinion, though. I feel it’s important to be honest about these things for if we aren’t then more stuff along the same lines will pop up. If you tolerate this, to paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers, then your city may be next.

[@NataEugeneTravel]

@@titteryenot4524 We don't have any personal opinion yet about Le Havre, as we have not visited it yet. But we still plan to check it out, if only because we are intrigued by the divided opinions about it that we have seen :)

[@malo66]

I am very biased as I agree that St Malo was successfully reconstructed but you must be aware that the cost of the rebuilding was colossal and largely down to string pulling in Paris by the then Mayor of Saint Malo, Mr Guy La Chambre. I don't think France would have been willing to pay for "de luxe" historic rebuilding of Brest, Le Havre and Dunkirk.

[@realwellnesstalk]

This is a great educational video, thanks!

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Thank you, happy you liked it :)

[@Perikly]

Gerçekten çok güzel bir yer. Umarım bir gün gidebilirim :( Türkçe altyazı için teşekkürler.

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Rica ederim! Ayrıca videomuzu beğendiğiniz için teşekkür ederiz :)

[@deltakataeb]

Been there it is nice

[@NataEugeneTravel]

It is nice indeed!

[@dancando6391]

I was doing my ancestry search and I tracked it back to Saint Malo to Rene Cartier (1377-1448) . How would I go about finding more information about him? There is nothing else I can find online. I suppose learning French would be ideal. Awesome video by the way.

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Thank you! No idea how to find this information, but it's impressive that you traced so far back in time!

[@belis35]

Hi, it’s already amazing to trace your ancestry that far away in the past! Is this René Cartier from the same family as Jacques Cartier ? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier

[@dancando6391]

@@belis35 from what I saw it’s highly likely

[@belis35]

@@dancando6391 in France all the genealogy resources are on line, but you will be very lucky if you find anything older than 1377 ! Are you looking for specific informations about René ?

[@malo66]

Try "Archives de Saint-Malo".

[@marimont4932]

Help, are you from Britagne?

[@NataEugeneTravel]

Sorry, no. We were just visiting.

[@goozebump]

Reddit brought me here

[@damiendubois353]

It's in Brittany ,not france lol .

[@ralphsaad8637]

Bretagne is in France...