Woke to another lovely morning and left the youth hostel around 9.00am.  Took to the winding and undulating cliff path, which turned out to be rather slower progress than I might have expected, so I am not able to keep up with my more rapid pace of the previous days.  Today’s 27k took nearly as long as yesterday’s 37!  I’m walking past wonderful beaches and have today started my photographic record of  Brittany beaches.

I rambled along, up and down and in and out of rocky inlets and took some great pictures.  I had really expected to come across some sort of village earlier, but I didn’t reach any civilisation until around 2.00 when I was more than ready to stop and buy some lunch and have a half hour break.  The coastal path is lovely and well used by many people, so I passed lots of other friendly walkers. Had a chat with someone who wanted to know how far it was to St Malo.  He thought it was a bit too much when I said it was about 3 hours walking!  Nevertheless he was very interestered to hear what I was doing. 

Eventually I turned into the bay at St Malo - wonderful sight - huge long stretch of sand - and wandered along right on the shore’s edge. I came to where I thought the youth hostel would be and within a minute I found it!  (A distinct improvement on navigating around the Polders at the beginning of the walk.)  It’s very busy and lively here, with lots of young people about.  I’m off to find some food, which I think will be simpler that last night’s delicious seafood choucroute.

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