Hicimos un largo viaje en coche como de 3 o 4 horas y cuando llegamos, vimos una montaña con un pico arriba rodeada de un lago sin agua. Como estaba medio lejos del estacionamiento, tomamos un camión para acercarnos. No se podían estacionar coches demasiado cerca por que el lago vacío que rodea el monte, esta muy cercano al mar y a cierta hora de la tarde, la marea sube muchísimo y rodea el cerro, esto es increíble
porque se vuelve como un pueblito-monte-isla. Es por eso que no dejan que los turistas ni nadie se estacione cerca porque el agua que llega cada tarde y se llevaría los coches.
Recuerdan la caricatura de Mickey y los Mosqueteros? Pues en esa película se supone que Donald, Mickey y Goofy quieren ser mosqueteros del rey de Francia y para probar que son valientes, deben rescatar a la princesa (Minnie) que está encerrada en una torre... pues esa torre está basada en Mont Saint Michel.
Tuvimos que subir un montón de escaleras hasta llegar hasta arriba. Antes de llegar al monasterio que hay en lo más alto tomamos un descanso entrando a tienditas de souvenirs, lo más famoso de ahí son unas galletas de mantequilla de "La Mère Poulard" hay incluso un hotel y restaurante que se llaman así.
En ese mismo viaje, fuimos a Saint Malo. Un pueblito muy cerca de Saint Michel donde vimos cómo la playa era inmensa a las 5 de la tarde, como de 1 Km. Y durante la noche la marea subió (como ya les conté) y el mañana que despertamos no solo no había playa si no que el mar había crecido muchos metros, así que tienen ya muy bien construida una muralla para que no se inunde la ciudad.
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I'm going to tell you the story when I went to Mont Saint Michel.
We did a long drive of almost 4 hours and when we arrived, we saw a mountain with a top surrounded by a lake without water. Since the parking was quite far away from the Mont Saint Michel, we had to take a bus to get closer. People could not park really close to the Mont because the empty lake surrounding the mountain is very close to the sea and at a certain time in the afternoon, the tide rises a lot and surrounds the hill, this is amazing because it becomes like a town-hill-island. That's why they do not let anybody park nearby because the water that comes every evening would take the cars.
Remember the cartoon of Mickey and the Musketeers? Well, it was in that movie where Mickey, Donald and Goofy wanted to be musketeers of the king of France and to prove that they were brave, they must rescue the princess (Minnie) who was locked in a tower ... that tower is inspired by Mont Saint Michel.
We had to climb a lot of stairs to reach the top. Before getting to the monastery we stopped to take a break on some souvenir shops, the most famous shop there, is "La Mère Poulard", they sell delicious butter biscuits and there is even a hotel and restaurant with its name.
Finally we got to the top of the hill where we visit a very old abbey, and on our way down, we finally ate! I remember that I was very hungry... and we had a hot dog so big that I couldn't finish it. I forgot to say that one of my favorite aunts was with us, Analú, who encouraged us to not give up on the rise.
On that same trip, we went also to Saint Malo. A town very close to Saint Michel where we saw how the beach was immense at 5 pm, as of 1 Km. And during night the tide came up (as I told you before) and next morning we woke up and saw how not only the beach was all gone, but also the sea had grown many meters, so they have already very well built a big wall so that the city is not flooded.
