Surfing & Muddy Lanes

Okay...

So I did make it out of Copenhagen, but I later found out that all the train traffic and the bridge did close shortly after I left, so the wait at the airport was worth it after all. My flight was great and short into France and despite the general warning I got about the Metro, it was fine and after walking up and down one street twice I did find my hostel in Paris and Brittany's smiling face was there to greet me!

The next day we decided to explore Paris and both of us were up for some walking, so we decided to walk downtown, this took us about an hour? We were looking in places and exploring a bit so I can't say for sure, but eventually we did get downtown and I got my first sight of the Eiffel Tour! We didn't make it over there because we spent the next 5 hours (at least) in The Louvre. It was amazing to see these things so up close, and as everybody says, yes the Mona Lisa was a bit smaller than I imagined, but I will also say that I can't believe how big the biggest painting was... it would fill a movie screen! So then it was pretty much time to walk back home again, which we did, and maybe our feet were swearing at us when we finally got back to the hostel, but nothing that a good nights sleep didn't fix.

We decided that we would explore the rest of France and come back to Paris, so the next day it was the train for us and onto to St. Malo which is in Bretagne. This was a unexpected delight because after checking into the hostel we took a walk over to the old city and on the way found surf!!!!!!!!! Which we took advantage of the very next day. The first day was spent exploring the city and then the next day was taken up with surfing and the decision to go to another little village called Dinan. We got up very early to do a sunrise surf, but when we got there found that the water had come all the way into the wall and the surf was pounding against it, and after deciding that if we went in, it would probably be our bodies pounding against that wall, we waiting until the tide at gone down a bit and the sun was up. So then the surf went good, despite the rather short 6'7 board.

After a few roadblocks, like trying to pack all our bags, two boards and wetsuits to the rental place, and then having to wait for half an hour because the lady had "car trouble" we booked it to the bus station to catch our deal of a bus, at 2 Euro, to Dinan. Once in Dinan we booked our train to Nice for the next day, and it was a good thing we did because we found that the train we wanted to take was full, so we had to take the 630 AM train instead....

The rest of the day was spent wandering around the beatiful medieval town of Diana, finding a wonderful boulangerie.. mmm and exploring a castle that wasn't actually open. Oh, and we jumped a fence or two to get down to the River Rance and walked, along an extremely muddy trail, to another small town called Lehon, where again we jumped a gate to get into some ruins to look at a viewpoint of the whole city.... it's not our fault the tourist season is closed... :)

Anyways, we made it back to Dinan, caught our train to Nice and now am in the Mediterranean. Today it was 17 degrees here, so I'm looking forward to some sun tomorrow. Can't Wait.