Le Mont-Saint-Michel, France

Driving on French Country rodes was either really good or really bad for me. Today was one of the bad ones. I missed a turn and soon found our map did not show any of the roads we were on. Luckily there were posted maps on street signs on the sides of road. It was very obvious we were very lost. This map only cover around a 10 mile area and did not get us back to any roads on the map. Logically if we headed towards the coast we had to hit one, so we could used them for this purpose of guiding our car north. My first thought was to pull one of these sign out of the ground and take it with me. Unable to do that I took a photograph and use it to navigate to the next map cover 10 miles and though this unique navigation system we were able to get back to a Highway and make it on the Mont St Michel. It was worth it.

Mont Saint Michel is off the coast of Normandy and is surrounded by water at high tide. There could not have been a safer place to be during a medieval siege and the English never were able to capture it. It feels like a living museum because there are no cars and other than cash registers, telephones, and few modern restrooms, it can’t have changed much in the last 500 years.