Believe.Go.Love.Travel.Learn.Think.: Mont Saint Michel and St. Malo!

This is 2 weeks late but I finally got to go to Mont St Michel and St. Malo got thrown in the weekend package too! Let me explain.

So after trying to get to this walled island city twice before, Chelsea and I finally decided to just go on the trip provided by our study aboad program! We left Sunday morning on a bus full of other study abroad students, the majority, surprisingly, were not even from our program, but from another program at the University, a lot more north american study abroad students (Germany, Sweden, etc) than in our program. So after a 2 hour bus ride we arrived at St. Malo. It is a seaside town that was completely surrounded and fortified with a wall. Perfectly intact still! So we walked all the way around this city (size of a small town) and got to enjoy the beautiful crisp weather and view of the ocean which was the most amazing color blue that day. After, we needed food and something warm to drink, so we popped into a Creperie (A crepe restaurant) and got some coffee, a galette (which is a salty crepe), and a chocolate crepe for dessert! SO delicious and warm and relaxing. After that we took a 20 min bus ride to Mont St. Michel. Finally we were there! We walked into the city, and guided by a lady in our group, made our way to the top of the mountain that makes up the town to go to the massive cathedral at the top! We took a tour of the cathedral which was magnificent and interesting. ANd every window you look out of you see the ocean and a beautiful day. So fun :) Also, there were some random people doing a photo shoot in the Cathedral, so that was funny, slash fun.

After that, we had pretty much seen it all. Mont St. Michel is just the big church and then tourist shops left, so we headed back to the bus! And after that we went back. I am so glad I finally got to see these wonderful structures and it is officially checked off my list haha. And now for some pictures!