We picked up our hire car this morning (Friday) and drove the 50km to Mont Saint Michel. The awesome site is so iconic and familiar in photos that it is surprising to feel breathtaken to view the reality in front of you. Of course the reality is also the thousands of tourists daily as with any of the world's best known spots. The tourists have been efficiently organised. The hectares of cars are parked well away from the monument and all tourists are given a choice of a free navette ride or a 40 minute walk before the energetic climb. A surprisingly large number choose the latter.
Dredging work is under way to reinstate the Mount as an island with causeway. Meanwhile the tides are also awesome. Vast expanses of mudflats at low tide are covered with ample water at high tide. The same phenomenon operates at Granville as will be related in another post.
Without understating the majesty of the abbey, we felt a walk through over couple of hours was sufficient for us, as we had more things to appreciate in Granville, so by early afternoon we were back in town.
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