Most of this day was spent on the bus driving from the Loire Valley to the French coast. We stopped at
Mount Saint Michel for several hours - it was here that Cal discovered that for the last 36 hours the film
in the camera was not advancing.
Mont-Saint-Michel was dedicated to Saint Michael in 708. St Michael had three tasks - he weighed
souls to separate them into the elect and the dammed, he leads them to heaven protecting
them from demons, and lastly he guarded the gates of paradise. In 966, it was entrusted to the
Benedictine monks who made the island one of the most important places of pilgrimage in the
Christian world. The monks began a construction project that continued without interruption from
the year 1000 to the beginning of the 1500s.
This is a picture of a very formal kitchen garden high up at the top of the castle.