Mont Saint Michel, Druids, and Community Theater
After leaving Paris, we headed north toward Normandy and Brittany. As none of us had ever been, we decided that our first big stop should be the mystical Mont Saint Michel. As it is one of the most touristed destinations in France, we decided to book a hotel room on the opposite side of its famous bay. Our first view, therefore, was quite impressive: Fig. 1: "A shoreless bay stretched before me, as far as eye could see: it lay between opposing coasts that vanished in distant mist; and in the midst of this vast tawny bay, under a gleaming golden sky, a strange hill, somber and peaked, thrust up from the sands at its feet. The sun had just sunk, and on a horizon still riotous with color was etched the outline of this fantastic rock that bore on its summit a fantastic monument." -- Guy de Maupassant, "The Horla". As awesome as it looks from across the bay, Mont Saint Michel is even more impressive from close up. Fig. 2: The dynamic duo, almost totally occluding the...