Mont Saint-Michel is breathtaking and inspiring and welcomes over 3 million visitors a year and in this podcast I share a full travel guide to this incredible location in Normandy, France. In 2023 the Mont celebrated its 1,000 year old birthday. I've visited this extraordinary beautiful island and abbey a number of times as we only live just over 1.5 hours drive away.
However, when I read in my local paper about its 1000 year milestone, I turned to my mum and said "Let's do it, how about I take you to Mont Saint-Michel and we stay over night?" She said "Yes", so we did. On this impromptu trip to Normandy and Mont Saint-Michel, it was delightful to show my mum around this incredible UNESCO world site and explain the history as we wandered the narrow cobbled streets, ate mussels in white wine at a cafe perched on the ancient thick stone wall, and squelched our toes in the muddy shores of the abbey watching the sun set over the grazing sheep.
Join me in this podcast episode and listen to why the Abbey is on this island, how it got built, hotels to stay at, how to get tickets and more.
Podcast show notes and photos
https://www.afrenchcollection.com/a-guide-to-mont-saint-michel-abbey/
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