No worries, out in Bretagne where I have been there is no sign of the looming demographic catastrophe occurring in France as a whole. They did have gendarmes with hardware present at the approaches to Mont St. Michel.

Anyone who has a 5yo granddaughter will know that it looks like someplace Princess Barbie might live....

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Actually it sits way the heck out there on the flats in the middle of nowhere in a setting flat, arid and sunny, reminiscent of the Texas coast.

It is a work of architectural genius and I am glad we didn't have to blow it up in WW II. Speaking of which I am sitting in a cafe in Avaranches near a Sherman tank and a tall monument to Americans in that war. Likewise on the way in there was a marker commemorating how Patton liberated the area on his way through France.

Interesting stuff.

Last edited by Birdwatcher; 07/19/16.
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