Bonjour
tout le monde!
2nd
day of bus tour
June
7, 2016
Today was incredible! After a quick breakfast at our hotel
we were on the road by nine o’clock in the morning. We had about an hour bus
drive and then we were at Mont St. Michel. Just seeing it from the windows of
the bus was a dream. It was funny because I felt like being in Chartres was
being in the town of Beauty in the Beast, and Mont St. Michel is just like
being in Tangled. The “town” is completely beautiful. The water wasn’t
completely surrounding it when we were there, but it was still a beautiful
sight to behold.
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| Mont St. Michel |
When we first got there we had two hours to just go and
wander around. There were a lot of little side streets and staircases and
random little sites to see such as a church, a cemetery and more. We got a
cheap lunch and went out on a little terrace to look out at the view.
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| One of the roads in Mont St. Michel |
After, we had a two hour tour of the Abbey. Our tour guide
was so knowledgeable, and I was amazed at how large it was. She told us all
about the history of it and how it has changed over the years. It was also
interesting because she started off the tour in French and I could almost
understand her French better than I could her English.
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| At the top is the Abbey |
She took us unto many
different rooms, and it was cool because we got to go behind a locked door to
see a room built in the 10th century. Overall, it was amazing to
learn about this place built upon this little island, a crossroads between
Brittany and Normandy, English and France. It was completely incredible.
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| The Garden in the Abbey |
After, we went over to the fortified city Saint-Malo.
Unfortunately it was unbelievably foggy so we couldn’t look out into the ocean,
but according to our French professor it usually has an amazing view.
Nonetheless, we were able to walk on the wall all the way around the city which
was a cool experience. We also walked a little on the beach which was good.
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| A section of the wall around the city |
After we got back in the wonderful bus and headed off to the
town where we would be staying for the night, Fougères. Okay, I have no idea
who thought of this and why it happened, but we had a super fancy 4-course meal
for dinner, and then we get to our one star hotel which doesn’t really have
wifi, has communal bathrooms, has no air conditioning, bunk beds and the
smallest towels you have ever seen. But oh well.
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| A portion of one of our meals |
Like our meal yesterday, it took about three hours to get
through. I would have enjoyed it a lot more had I not known that it cost about
as much as our hotel.
À Bientôt,
Claire
Hunsaker
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