Today, we went to visit le Mont Saint Michel. Mont Saint Michel is an abbey built in the 700s as a place of pilgrimage on a rocky island in the English Channel. There is a small village below the abbey, with a fortified wall around it. Mont Saint Michel was considered a religious place and pilgrims would walk for weeks to visit it. We had to walk up a steep hill and climb up a lot of stairs to get to the abbey at the top. We walked through some dark hallways and visited some big rooms and chapels in the abbey. Along the narrow street up to the abbey there were tourist shops with signs, books and pamphlets in many different languages. After our walk around Saint Mont Michel, we ate lunch and went shopping in the tourist shops.
I really liked Mont Saint Michel because I got to see some different rooms Like the refectory, and discover what they were like in the Middle Ages. There were a lot of unique things like the arches and the cobblestone walkways. Most of the abbey and the village was made of stone. There were places where you could stand and look out into the distance. Once, I could see another island and a huge piece of land in the fog which I believed was the mainland of France. There was very interesting merchandise and there were lots of restaurants. If I had the chance to go back to France, I would definitely go back to Mont Saint Michel despite the exhausting climb to the abbey.
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