If it looks a little familiar, it may be because Disney modeled the castle in Tangled after this village. See...
This place has quite the history. The castle and surround village is actually a monastery and village. The village is situated on an island that during low tide has no water around it, but during high tide is completely surrounded by water. It is very dangerous to go walk around during low tide as there is a lot of quick sand and when the tide does come in it comes in extremely fast. It has been around since the 8th century and has a really interesting history.
A pic showing how far out the tide goes, the ocean is way out past that plateau on the left.
This is one of the cannons that was used by the English in their failed attempt to overtake the island during the 14th century.
Inside the walls it really is pretty cool. It has an old castle like feeling and you walk around and around in all these little shops and restaurants.
The kids really had a fun time just wandering around and checking everything out.
The kids were convinced this cat belonged to Rapunzel.
Did we mention there were stairs... Who needs a stair master! Of course Ms. H had to do all the stairs by herself.
Here's a picture of the Abby at the top, we asked Ms. A if she'd rather pay 20€ to go in and see it or if she wanted to buy Tangled. She picked Tangled.
In the end we loved Le Mont Saint Michel, we will definitely go back and visit! One more thing, if you are a rainbow lover, well the Normandy region is for you, we saw rainbows everyday we were there and after talking to some locals it is a very common occurrence.
Ms. A was dying to run out in the field to find the pot of gold! There were two pots with this double rainbow.
- K & E
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