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Travel Blogs from Percy
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 5
The last leg of our trip was a short visit to the Mont Saint-Michel. We left St.Malo mid-morning, and drove about an hour to the famed mount. The Mont Saint-Michel is a island fortress in a bay several miles from the English Channel. The mount used to be located in a forest, but thousands of years ago, a tsunami devastated the area and brought the sea level up several miles. Now, during high tide, the fortress is completely surrounded by water; ...
Mont St. Michel
Mont Saint Michel Up at 5:45, breakfast, picked up at 7 for our private tour of Mont St. Michel. Our group of ten was driven to the Normandy coast. The drive took 4 hours. From my first glimpse of Mt. St Michel I was amazed by the profile of the village and Abbey on the flat expanse of the coastal plain. The silhouette was both beautiful and mysterious. Something from a dream or a fantasy! We ...
Onze laatste dag
... een tegenvaller. Het is precies een pretpark geworden. Een ongelooflijk grote parking tegen een absurd hoge prijs. Niets anders dan hotels en restaurants op het vaste land. En onze host van de B&B waar we logeerden had ons gewaarschuwd voor mensen die valse toegangskaarten verkopen om naar het eiland te gaan.
Op het eiland ...
Le Mont-Saint-Michel
Spent the day at Mont Saint Michel. It's changed a lot since I was last there. It's now a major building site (2011-2015), to try and turn it back into an island once more.
Streets were just as crowded as I remember.
Cycled over to get some ...
Quicksand!
Mont St. Michel became a priority after watching a travel video, one of many rented from the library last winter in anticipation of this European adventure. I desperately wanted to walk out into the vast sandy expanse at low tide and sink into quicksand just like that travel guide.
The skies during our 2 hour train trip were beautiful. At Pontorson, we had to wait another 45 minutes for the public transit. ...
