PAD Day 20 - Mont St Michel

Mont St Michel

When I mentioned I was going to Brittany, my French teacher was keen for me to visit Mont St Michel. It is a old monastery (and ex-prison) that used to be on an island of the north Breton coast, which is now connected to the mainland by a causeway. Apparently this is due to be replaced by a bridge as it has caused the tidal movement in the region to change so much that it killed off all the fish (or so I hear).

This place was AMAZING. From the top, the views of the flood plains stretch way into the distance and the scale of the building was phenomenal. This is my family standing in one of the fireplaces in the massive kitchen (plus the leg from an annoying Japanese tour group that followed us around the building/castle)!

I'm not sure how many stairs we had to climb, but we had certainly earned our lunch by the time we eventually made our way back down to the restaurant area.