Cinte Everywhere: France 2012 - Part 4

So, its already my 5th day in France. On 5th August we didn't go anywhere because Nico did BBQ party at his place.So far so good, raining and cold. Its funny cos sometimes i think there's someone turn on and off the rain switch. Its pour for 5 min then stop. After one hour its start again for 5 min and stop. So nothing much you can do in this weather.

We decide that we going to Mont st Michel today. As i am a muslim im scared that this post will create discomfort to some people. Mont st Michel is an old church which is one of most treasured monument in France. Let see it as monument shall we, something like Arc de Triomphe or Louvre and stop see it as a church.

We left home at 6.30 in the morning and Nico packed some pasta for our lunch. When he 1st packed food for our lunch in Paris i was wondering why he do that since we can eat outside in the restaurant. But obviously this is something that everybody do there. Packed your food is so much cheaper then eating out. It will be weird if we do it in malaysia since you can get food everywhere and cheap. We eat outside most of the time and only pack our food here when we go to picnic.

It took us around 2 hours to reach Mont st Michel in Normandy from surzur by car. We left early in order to avoid crowd and since we didnt know how long we going to be there. It was a sunny day, almost as hot as in malaysia minus humidity. So we reach there before 9 and parking was almost full. When we park our car, we received this flyers on how to get there.

There are 2 option, either you can walk or take feeder bus provided. We wanted to walk before that until we saw that it will took us 40min walk from carpark to the church, 40min!!!! So we choose to take bus.

From carpark its already 10 - 15min walk to the bus stop. They make us walk around so we might go to their souvenir shop and hotels which situated around the bus stop. Its pretty inconvenient for disable and old citizen when they can have bus waited directly from carpark. Expect long queue but thank god that they have plenty of bus and their service is quite fast. You only have to wait for 5 min to get into the bus and it will take you directly in front of mont st michel.

Mont st Michel is huge and so beautiful. Remember that part in twilight movie were Edward try to kill himself during carnival at the volturi? So this place is something like that. The entire village is there and its situated on the sea and accessible by road. Its a low tide when we were there and be careful if you want to walk around. When water start to rise the surrounding area can be full in water in 3min. So make sure you know where you going and the tide condition before you walk around.