{"id":1527,"date":"2015-05-29T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2015-06-28T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T18:06:59","slug":"france-2015-brittany-friday-may-29-mont-saint-michel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maureensmusings.ca\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"France 2015 \u2013 Brittany \u2013 Friday, May 29 \u2013 Mont Saint Michel"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re ever in the area, you MUST make the effort to visit Mont Saint Michel<\/a>, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\u00a0 What an architectural wonder, starting with a dream in 700AD and spanning almost every century up to, and including, now with the work that’s being done on the canal\/dam to help redirect the tides for more efficient hydro use.\u00a0 It has been everything from a small church, to a monastery, to a fortress, to a prison, to a village, to a mecca of tourism.<\/p>\n

Mont Saint Michel is about 2.5-3 hours from where we\u2019re staying but so worth the drive!\u00a0 For 2 shutter-crazed-bugs, this turned out to be a very long day, yet so rewarding.\u00a0 We \u201creleased\u201d our friends from their obligation to stay with us and spent 5.5 hours touring, being amazed, and snapping up countless photographs.<\/p>\n

These 2 paragraphs don\u2019t seem to be enough to pay justice to this monument but it\u2019s all I\u2019ve got, in words.\u00a0 I have lots of pictures, though \ud83d\ude42 \u2026<\/p>\n

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Rosanne, Rudie, Joe, and Maria had enough time to stop in St. Malo on their way back, then ended up eating at Le Borneo Pizzeria Brasserie in Lannion, across from market.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been instructed to go back and ask for Ester \u2013 to tell her the Canadians sent us.\u00a0 We will do that.<\/p>\n

We drove around closer to home and stumbled across a very tiny restaurant, part of Camping l\u2019Epine, in Trelevern, the next village over. There we also ate well, with great service. Steve chose the prix fixe Andouille special with ice cream dessert and I chose the prix fixe bavette with seafood salad entre and cr\u00e8me brule dessert. We had a ring-side table with gorgeous views onto yet another bay\/beach and were able to capture some early sunset pictures around 9:30pm \u2013 the fuzzier ones from behind the glass, the clearer ones from outside.<\/p>\n

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At midnight, we all fell into bed, exhausted.\u00a0 No one would have had it any other way.<\/p>\n

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