le Mont Saint Michel

After a busy week, we decided to take a trip to Le Mont-Saint-Michel on Saturday. Click here for the website if you're interested! We had read that the streets inside the walls are packed with tourists during the day and it's almost like a ghost-town by night so we decided to book a room at one of the hotels inside.

after a foggy drive, we turned a corner and spotted it

Mark would have failed height requirements to guard the island

 the surrounding bay has the highest tides in Europe. because of current construction, it was almost impossible to get a photo of both sides when the tide was high. they are working to make it a true island again by building a road bridge that water will flow under - through the years, too much sediment has been brought in with the tides and well, unfortunately, it's not much of an island anymore.

as we'd hoped, the streets were completely empty by dinner



Before completing this post, I grabbed the mail - we received a nice letter from Mark's grandma with some photos from their trip to Normandy in 1982. Ironically, one of the enclosed photos was Mont-Saint-Michel!