Mont St Michel is an Abbey that was built on it’s own island surrounded by water when the tide is in and quick sand when the tide was out. When we parked, there was a sign saying when our car should be removed because of the incoming tide. Lucky for us it was at 8:00 p.m. The hike up to where the abbey is located is very steep but has little shops along the way. It’s probably very similar to what it looks like now, minus all the souvenier shops and restaurants. I imagine it would be just like a regular village with everything you need look after yourself. We get up to the second level before we are stopped by a long line of people, and a 9 euro entrance fee to go up one more level. It’s not that much further up, and because it is quite foggy out, we decide to wander around where we are, and take in the sites. It is still very high, with steep walls at the edge of each ridge so we really have the experience we are looking for.
We have a stop tonight between here and Amboise, and it happens to be in what we have deemed our sketchy town of the trip. The hotel has recently renovated the rooms on the inside and ours includes red light panels, with a very large print over our bed with red roses. I’m not sure if we have rented the room for the night or by the hour, but the bathroom is good, and we figure that’s all that matters tonight.
Next stop is going to be in Amboise in the Loire Valley, but with a Chateaux scheduled in so I can see how the rich lived in the early centuries. The Chateaux is absolutely incredible. To think that people lived like that is hard to believe. The chateaux inside has been very nicely done, with pieces of furniture represented by each time period the chateaux was in use. I loved the behind the scenes places like the kitchen, the butcher, the larder, and the pathway to deliver everything to the dining room. Most of all I loved the gardens. The vegetable and flower gardens were located in the same place, and they have planted everything that would have been there years ago. There is a separate area for the farm, and if my girls had their way, that is where they would have spent all of there time.
We have lunch there, and taste Coq au Vin, which is the male chicken, and it is very tasty, lots of dark meat that reminds us of turkey.
Our night is spent in what would be our equivalent Super 8, and it is clean and we are very happy with the 45 euro price. Every euro is a euro I can spend in Paris!
Clearly Carla 