After touring all the memorials and cemeteries, it was a nice break to just walk the ramparts, the jetty, and do some shopping for a day. And we made a new food discovery...Gallettes. They're crepes -but not sweet- and they can basically be filled with what you want. Usually with an egg and cheese to start off with as a base. Pretty yummy for a lunch time snack.
Thursday we got an early start to visit Mont St Michel - the second most visited site in France after Paris. It's a pretty impressive site with the abbey and tiny town built on a big clump of rocks that in its heyday was surrounded by water at high tide. Because they had built a causeway to allow easier access to visitors, it shifted what happened to the sand and the silt. So now they're in the process of building a new bridge so the area and water can return to its natural state. Got to love progress.
Place was neat, but happy too to leave the crowds behind. Plus, I think I've decided that Mont St Michel is better and more spectacular from afar.
After MSM, we decided to visit another German Military Cemetery that was just a few kilometers away. This one was entirely different from the two previous ones that we had visited. It still had a staggering amount of names - 12k- but instead of headstones, these graves were done in a vault style...in a circle with 2 levels. This was the first time too that we found the name Wachholz in the mix. Theodor...born in 1901, passed September, 1945.
Am thinking I may need to explore this a little further.
Felt it was important to end the afternoon on a high note, so decided to revisit Cancale - and make sure that the oysters from the previous visit weren't a fluke...nope - still the best they've tasted! Good thing we didn't waste the trip;)
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