1) First stop - Pontorson. Judy is already planning to have her husband John make some of these planters for her.2) Notice the fence - instead of slates, they're made to look like colorful pencils outside the Notre Dame Nursery School.
3) Mont St-Michel. This Gothic abbey was built during the 13th to 16th centuries. It was built on a rock in the middle of the sea without power tools so I guess they were entitled to take a few centuries to complete it. This is a World Heritage Site and cousin Bob has been waiting until the 4th grade to see it (that's closer to a century than not but don't tell him I said so). It was a bit foggy when we started out but we got lucky.
4) We thought we'd left Tillie the VW at home. Looks like she's on tour as well.
5) Some of the stairs going up - no elevators for those guys (or us). Thank heavens the current residents did decide to modernize a bit and put toilettes part way up.
6) The abbey cloister - I don't want to even think about how many buckets of dirt they had to cart up that mountain to put this in!
7) They climbed (zillions of steps), they saw, the climbed down (zillions of steps), they sat... and sat...
8) Lunch in Cancale known as the French oyster capital. Some of us had oysters, some didn't. Turns out Pat, Judy & cousin John are a bit more squeamish in their eating than Bob, John & I.
9) Dinan - one of the best preserved medieval cities in Brittany. Taxes were based on the square footage of the ground floor so they built small below and broadened as they went up.
Word has it that Chicken, Alaska had to fly in special tires for this crazy couple driving a red Corvette on the Alcan Highway. They wouldn't have tried that, would they?!
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