Mont St. Michel
Travel Blogs from Mont St. Michel, France
Stunning Mont-Saint-Michel.
... we had again joined the busy roads of the French on holidays. Large 6 berth Motorhomes were EVERYWHERE. The 8th century Mont-Saint-Michel is a monastery has a commanding position on a rock just off the coast. A causway goes out to it, and this ...
Mysterious Michel
... ’. Jennie and Kevin have been kind enough to offer to take us to their secret camping spot near le Mont-Saint-Michel . A beautiful vista overlooking the open tide towards this beautiful island while the sun sets behind it. We were ...
Very Cool!
... most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/mont-st-michel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mont-Saint-Michel The numbers of people arriving to spend the day at the ...
Exploring Normandy
... But we do miss the Spanish south coast! We just finished with our Normandy excursions and are camped right outside of Mont St-Michel, a small rock island with a gigantic abbey jutting into the sky. It used to be completely disconnected from the ...
Trains, Buses, Rain.. Ruins.. but not my day...
... of stone used... the land goes from flat to gentle hills.. quite pretty. Was dropped at my accom for the night in Mt St Michel, and quickly headed out as rain was predicted..the morning had been sunny but the mid afternoon turned ugly.. a continual misty ...
Normandy
... French which was irritating when I was trying to sleep. I'm getting quite good at tuning out French...hah -Visited Mt Saint Michel: this commune built ON a rock island off the coast of Normandy. They have some of the most extreme ocean tides ...
Visite de la Merveille
... ans, les vaches sont une attraction à succès), nous prenons congé et parcourons les trois kilomètres qui nous séparent du Mont Saint-Michel. Je ne vais pas m'étendre sur la beauté du lieu, Victor Hugo le faisant à nettement plus de bonheur, mais ...
D-Day Landings and Mont Saint Michel
... with a bent for these things. So it was lunch in the car to keep warm and dry. We then drove down to Mont St-Michel which is an abbey with slender towers and sky scraping turrets on an island out from the coast, only connected by a narrow ...
today is your birthday
... the fuss is all about. When we arrived on the car park something caught my attention, there are some handicap spot but in the Mont itself there is no allowance made for people in wheelchairs as there are a lot of stairs and narrow passages. I thought it ...
Le Mont St. Michel
... could see a lot of the sand, but it was still beautiful. I wasn't able to take any pictures while we were approaching Mont St. Michel as the windows hindered any real picture from being taken, but you could see it on the horizon for miles away. ...
Mont St Michel
We drove the rental car out to Mont St. Michel on the north-west coast of France. Mont St. Michel is an old abbey that sits on a hill with a town around it. When the high tide comes in it is an island (although now connected to the mainland by ...
Not in Cornwall anymore Toto...
... Mount St Micheal in Cornwall. You would be forgiven for thinking they look very similar from a distance but up close Mont Michel is far grander, although the causeway is cooler in England!!! Having the place nearly completely to ourselves we ...
A train ride, and a bus ride to Mont St. Michel!
... to catch the 2 hour train ride to the city of Rennes, from there we take a 75 minute tour bus ride to the famous Mont St. Michel. This place is awesome! It's an all day trip, we'll get back home around 7pm, then probably get some local food and ...
The Abbey on the Mont
... of the day back to Bayeux was due to depart at 7:02 PM. Which meant that I had to take the 6:15 PM bus to Mont St Michel, then the 6:30 PM bus back from Mont St Michel. Needless to say, the bus driver was caught a bit off guard when I asked ...
Mountains to climb
... to the causeway and the ride on the packed causeway bus. Pity the town bus only runs once every 1.5 hours. The Mont is undergoing some major redevelopment inside as well as outside. Everything is covered in scaffolding and there are workmen everywhere. ...
Mont St. Michel
We spent the afernoon climbing over Le Mont Saint Michel, the rocky cone shaped islet in the Gulf of Saint Malo connected to the mainland by a causeway. It has a Benedictine Abbey on top of it, shops and restaurants on it's lowest levels, and the ...
Mesmerizing Mont-St-Michel Beckons
... the end product of his imagination is enjoyed by the endless throngs of visitors flocking to this part of northwest France on a daily basis in the 21st century. Mont-St-Michel is stunning! It is truly worth the effort to get there! And, when you do, stay ...
Mont Saint Michel
... took us on a little excursion to Mont Saint Michel, just on the border between Brittany and Normandy. It was absolutely spectacular. Mont Saint Michel is a very old abbey built on an isolated tidal rock surrounded by lots of sand, and when the tide is ...
29/06/09
... to stay in Saint-Lo but as we are so close to Marg birthday we opted for the top of the range hotel with view of Mont-Saint-Michel itself. Great place by European standards but with an over price tag ... at least it comes with great view. We just had the ...
Mont St. Michel
... of causeway, which was built in 1878. This causeway will be replaced in the future by a bridge on stilts, which will return Mont St. Michel to being an island. The water surrounding Mont St. Michel are known for the great tides. The tides rise over 50 ...
Mont St. Michel
... it was, rising out of the sea like something from a Star Wars movie - a city in space. Only this city was the Abbey of Mont St. Michel and it was on the Normandy Coast located on a rock in the middle of the bay! The place was amazing! Under the ...
And so it begins
... per usual, I got completely lost and found a divine little road along the beachside and cruised past some old windmills. Got to Mont St Michel around 11am, realising I had lost an hour from GMT. I'd already decided to "do" the Mont tomorrow so I could ...
A Historical Visit
Today we went to Mont St. Michel and toured around the island with a self guided audio tour and looking in all the shops for souvenirs. The audio tour was describing the life of a monk and the abbey's ...
Inside the walls of Mont St. Michel
After a rounding of golf, where I've played my best game ever! - we quickly took off to Mont St. Michel. I've only heard of this place but never seen a picture of it, so seeing the island/castle/church appear was breathtaking. Going up many stairs up ...
Majestic Mont St-Michel
... of vast, flat green plains on one side, with regular glimpses of ocean on the left, soon brought us closer to Mont St-Michel. What incredible strong, severe, elegant majesty! It loomed ever closer as we drove towards it - but seemed forever unreachable. ...
Mount Saint Michel
We traveled there from Paris, to visit this beautiful place situated in the Low Normandy. This mountain in the middle of a bay is very spectacular because the seabed of the bay is very flat, what produces fast flooding in the whole bay when the tide ...

