Thursday, November 10

Day 9 - The Million Dollar View!!!!

We were on a train all day today!!! It was tough. It made for a long day. We left Avignon at 9:00am and got to Mont St-Michel at around 5:30pm...

  Its a spectacular sight!! We are staying in our most decadent hotel of the trip, only for one night so we justified it... It has a private view balcony

Nothing short of breathtaking! 

 That being said, it took us climbing about a million steps to get to the room, while lugging all of our luggage with us!!. And remembering where it is, especially after some hard cider, in the pitch black, no outside lighting thank you very much, is a true challenge. But we made it!! :)
 Note to travelers, while Mont St-Michel is an amazing sight without a doubt, it's probably only worth a day-trip. The luggage, even with only carry-ons and the logistics of it was an incredible challenge no matter who you are! 
And the driving rain and cold weather this time of year isn't much of a help either. We get to tour the abbey tomorrow and the town so hopefully we will have amazing stories to counter-balance this difficult day. I've been around Europe quite a few times and I've run into some places that are true tourist traps. Places that only exist for tourists and nothing else. This is one of those.
There are only 33 people who actually live here on the island. It's not a working city in any way, it strictly survives because tourist flock to it and spend money, a lot of it, just to be here and see this spectacular sight!

 For example, we went to dinner at our hotel's restaurant. We checked TripAdvisor for our best options but when we got to the main drag, only 2 places were open. We chose the best looking of the two. These are pictures of our dinners, and like we have been taught our whole lives, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. 




So, moving on, we are waking up with the sunrise and will be trying to get to the abbey before any of the tourists wake up and hopefully get out of dodge before it gets too nuts!!

 We will have more to report tomorrow when we make it into Brittany. Until then, we will make the best of the situation with our amazing room and our 3 bottles of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape we were given yesterday as a gift! :)


Until tomorrow, off to drink some amazing wine!!

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