Holiday Pics: Mont St Michel Set 2

[lyore]

Set 2: Mont St Michel, Exteriors and shots from the village.

























All the pics have been resized, but if they are too page-bendy, let me know and I'll try and fix that.

Comments

[vasher.livejournal.com]

Now that is what I call a castle! Awesome. Huh, is the whole castle on some swamp or mudflat area? Must have been a bitch to build back in the day. And it looks so cold...

I love the cutout knight-on-a-horse. XD

So, how was your trip around Europe?

[lyore.livejournal.com]

It's an abbey, actually. But fortified abbey, used as a stronghold in the Hundred Years War, so close enough :)

It's kinda built in the ocean - when the tide comes in it surrounds the island, apart from the causeway. Apparently, they built it there because some bishop had a dream about the Archangel Miche(a)l, which told him to build an abbey there. When they started, it was supposedly surrounded by trees, but then I think there was an earthquake or something, and the sea surrounded the island. And then they had to lug all the stone up there by boat. Must have been fun. And so ends Lyore's (probably completely inaccurate) history lesson for today :)

The knight cut-out is one of my favourites too.

The trip was GREAT. So many things to see, stuff I'd read about and never really thought I'd get a chance to see in person... it rained or was overcast the entire time I was in France, but we had 10 days of pratically perfect weather in the UK. Cloudless blue skies, the sort of weather I'd expect from summer back home, not spring in the UK.