Legend says that Michael the Archangel instructed St. Aubert to build a church on the island where Mont St. Michel Abbey is now located. Hence the name and hence the statue.
St. Michel
This is a small part of the Grand Hall. At one time it was painted and decorated quite elaborately for guests to the abbey. The fireplaces are huge. They're fun to stand in.
This is a monk wheel, like a gerbil wheel. It's a human-powered way to pull a sledge up and down from the abbey.
This is a view from the monk wheel room out to the flats around the island.
I always love cloisters.
This is the B&B about 20 minutes from Mont St. Michel where Kirsten and I stayed. The owners were British and the community is a little English stronghold. We ate at an English pub the night we stayed there.
Legend says that Michael the Archangel instructed St. Aubert to build a church on the island where Mont St. Michel Abbey is now located. Hence the name and hence the statue.
St. Michel
This is a small part of the Grand Hall. At one time it was painted and decorated quite elaborately for guests to the abbey. The fireplaces are huge. They're fun to stand in.
This is a monk wheel, like a gerbil wheel. It's a human-powered way to pull a sledge up and down from the abbey.
This is a view from the monk wheel room out to the flats around the island.
I always love cloisters.
This is the B&B about 20 minutes from Mont St. Michel where Kirsten and I stayed. The owners were British and the community is a little English stronghold. We ate at an English pub the night we stayed there.
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I'm so happy to see these pictures. As a child I had a Mont S. M. obsession. Always thought the place harbored some kind of architectural/artistic perfecstasy. Places like that can eventually disappoint. But it's really nice to see in your picture the perspective from up high looking down on the flats. Nobody ever shows that. It's always the other way around.
MarmDad
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