Mt St Michel/St Malo

Today, instead of going to class like normal college students, we had the school pay for a trip to Mont Saint Michel. It's a monastery located on a 'temporary' island off the north coast of France. When the tides are low, you can actually walk across sand to the island. This can be dangerous though because of quicksand and such. When the tides are high, you can't get to it, except for the man-made road that connects it. Check it out on the internet to read up all about it. It's pretty cool. Then we went to Saint Malo. This is a walled city a little ways from Mt St Michel. It was apparently destroyed during WW2 but has since been rebuilt. It's really, really nice inside. About all the buildings are 5-6 (I think) stories high. Almost all of them have shops and such on the first floor, but they're residential (I think) on all the floors above them. This has got to be expensive real estate for sure.
While in Saint Malo, we decided to walk out to an island a short distance away. While we were walking out, the waves were lapping over onto the walkway, so we figured we didn't have much time until the tides came in and covered it. This was true. I quick ran to the top and snapped a few pictures of the town from the ocean view and started right back to mainland. I was the first one to walk across, and luckily for me, the water only came up halfway on my calves. The other people though, well it was pretty funny. The last people back had their jeans soaked almost up to their waists. Good stuff. Pics:

Mt St Michel
















St Malo from the island















Walking across, after the tide came in
















And tomorrow we leave for Ireland. Voilà