Mont St-Michel

We decided to go out of our way to see this spectacle while you can still reach it by car.  There are plans to demolish the causeway and massive parking area so that Mont St -Michel will once again become an island.  A bridge will replace the causeway and tourists will be ferried out by shuttle, but judging by the number of tourists there at 11am on a Monday morning, be thinking: worst nightmare.   We were pleased we made the effort to go though as it is a really fascinating place.

For the postcard series …	This is how the Abbey and island looked during the 11th & 12th centuries	These two renegades slide in for the classic tourist pose
One has to be patient and wait a very long time to capture the attractive cloisters without any bits of leftover tourists in amongst it.	Interesting architecture – a bit of Brittany with a dash of Normandy	Part of the huge wheel at the top of the cathedral, hand operated to haul supplies up from way down below.

View across the causeway: It’s 11am on Monday morning.  When we left there were 30 coaches, about 300 or more cars, and 40 or 50 motor homes.  That’s about 2,500 people.  The narrow streets were heaving and it was all too much in the end.  Everyone takes their dog.  Yes, why?  Good question.  One woman had 4 greyhounds on leads (I really don’t get that at all).  We’d had enough of screeching teenage tour groups by then anyway.