If you’re looking for a place that feels like it’s straight out of a fairytale, Mont Saint Michel is a must-see. This tiny island, crowned by an impressive abbey and medieval village, rises ...

It was exactly a millennium ago that the first stone of the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel, in French Normandy, was laid. The monument that poet Victor Hugo called the “Khéops of the West” has ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...

Exactly 1,000 years ago this month, construction started on a magnificent island building off the coast of France that, as it rose improbably from the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, would become ...