We packed up on Friday and headed around the coast of Brittany to Mont St. Michel.  We have been granted our wish of cooler weather but, the rain is determined to come with it.  If it’s not raining, it looks like it’s going to rain.  I hope this is not a harbinger of things to come in England.

Anyway, we stopped and enjoyed the coastal beaches and drove to a B&B near Mont St. Michel in Normandy.  The place is nice enough but, certainly nothing to rave about.  The hosts are very pleasant, and proud of the place.  They served us a lovely breakfast this morning with croissants, homemade jams, hardboiled eggs and cheese.  They are very nice people but a little hard to communicate with.  Their English is about as good as my French so, it leaves us with a lot of charades.

We drove for about 10 minutes to get to Mont St. Michel this morning just in time to take tour of the castle/monastery in English.  It really is a spectacular site and about 1.3 million people a year agree.  It is BUSY.  I think they took lessons from SeaWorld or Disney to get people shuttled to and from the parking lots to the Mont.  Very efficient and very touristy.  Nonetheless, it was a great day and we were glad we made the trip.

Tomorrow will be a big adventure for us.  We are crossing the English Channel from Cherbourg, France to Portsmouth, England.  We have about a two hour drive to Cherbourg but our ferry doesn’t depart until 4:00PM so we will have plenty of time to get there.  It is a five hour crossing from Cherbourg but it means we don’t have to drive all the way back east to Calais to take the chunnel.