Mont St. Michel et St. Malo

Yesterday, there was an IES field trip to Mont St. Michel and St. Malo. Mont St. Michel is a very cool abbey/monastery. It is on this weird island rock kind of thing that sticks up out of sand where the tide comes in. Its absolutely breathtaking as you first see it rising out of the land (when we went tide was out). I was kind of disappointed by how touristy it was (the abbey its self had like 4 gift shops and surrounding the abbey/monastery within the walls were all souvenir shops and overpriced food). All that being said, it was definitely amazing and very impressive. My friend and I found a nice place to eat lunch with a beautiful view that was higher up. (I of course had packed my lunch being the smart celiac traveler!) We then went on to St. Malo, a small port city that has produced alot of explorers back in the day (that I have learned all about in my history book). My friends and I walked on a beautiful sandy beach, almost got trapped by tide (and by trapped, it only comes in about a foot deep so, its a relative term). And we walked around and ate ice cream (finally, I found mint chocolate chip. It was so delicious. Almost as good as the taco and gatorade I am craving). We then returned to Nantes!

As sure as Mont St. Michel rises like Olympus above the Brittany (ok I changed the lyrics slightly)


Closer view of Mont St. Michel and Friends!


Random Ceiling inside


My friends and I in St. Malo