THE BOY in the WINDOW...
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
... Seen from the outside, the cloister and windows just to give you an idea...
The cloister is rectangular, and on the one side, there are windows… one almost down to the ground.
Apparently, another part was eventually to be added and this was to be a doorway… but now, thick safe glass is set in the arches, I can assure you, it is not for the fainthearted or those suffering from fear of height!
Even ‘mildly, however the views are stunning, the bay, as far as the eye can see, the tide is out, it is the ‘low season’ that means the sea can be out 12 km!
Perched on a 264 feet high rock formation sits Mont St. Michel.
During the seasons' highest tides the abbey is surrounded by water. During low tide the flats provide food for the world's only herd of salt water plant eating sheep ( Les agneaux des prés salés, the meat tastes salty).
Mont St. Michel's tides can rush in at incredible speeds.The tides in the area shift quickly, and has been described by Victor Hugo as à la vitesse d'un cheval au galop, "as swiftly as a galloping horse."
The tide actually comes in at 1 meter per second.
Popularly nicknamed "St. Michael in Peril of the Sea" by medieval pilgrims making their way across the tidal flats, the mount can still pose dangers for visitors who avoid the causeway and attempt the hazardous walk across the sands from the neighbouring coast.
The dangers from the tides and quick sands continue to claim lives.
Mont Saint Michel is a small rocky island about 1 km from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River in Normandy.
The mount is best known for the medieval Benedictine Abbey and steepled church that occupies most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel.
Take care, be safe!
THANK you, M, (*_*)
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Mont-Saint-Michel, France, wall, windows, people, height, view, high, sea, bay, arch, architecture, photographer, sky, colour, horizontal, Normandy, "Magda indigo"
THE BOY in the WINDOW...
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
... Seen from the outside, the cloister and windows just to give you an idea...
The cloister is rectangular, and on the one side, there are windows… one almost down to the ground.
Apparently, another part was eventually to be added and this was to be a doorway… but now, thick safe glass is set in the arches, I can assure you, it is not for the fainthearted or those suffering from fear of height!
Even ‘mildly, however the views are stunning, the bay, as far as the eye can see, the tide is out, it is the ‘low season’ that means the sea can be out 12 km!
Perched on a 264 feet high rock formation sits Mont St. Michel.
During the seasons' highest tides the abbey is surrounded by water. During low tide the flats provide food for the world's only herd of salt water plant eating sheep ( Les agneaux des prés salés, the meat tastes salty).
Mont St. Michel's tides can rush in at incredible speeds.The tides in the area shift quickly, and has been described by Victor Hugo as à la vitesse d'un cheval au galop, "as swiftly as a galloping horse."
The tide actually comes in at 1 meter per second.
Popularly nicknamed "St. Michael in Peril of the Sea" by medieval pilgrims making their way across the tidal flats, the mount can still pose dangers for visitors who avoid the causeway and attempt the hazardous walk across the sands from the neighbouring coast.
The dangers from the tides and quick sands continue to claim lives.
Mont Saint Michel is a small rocky island about 1 km from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River in Normandy.
The mount is best known for the medieval Benedictine Abbey and steepled church that occupies most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel.
Take care, be safe!
THANK you, M, (*_*)
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Mont-Saint-Michel, France, wall, windows, people, height, view, high, sea, bay, arch, architecture, photographer, sky, colour, horizontal, Normandy, "Magda indigo"