Mont-Saint-Michel & Normandy Travel Guide (2026)
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Mont-Saint-Michel & Normandy: Where to Start We almost did Mont-Saint-Michel as a three-hour stop. Drive in, photograph the abbey, drive out before dark. A guesthouse owner near Bayeux talked us out of it over a plate of galettes: “You’ll arrive with the coach crowds, climb the same staircase as four thousand other people, and leave before the tide does the one thing it came to do.” So we stayed the night. By eight that evening the day-trippers had drained away, the ramparts were almost empty, and the bay began to fill — and that’s the version of the island almost nobody plans for. ...