Tag: Normandy

• Low Tide at Mont Saint-Michel

  There was a time when you needed to watch the rising sea water if you found yourself on the Mount of St. Michael.  The abbey and village were situated on the tidal flats of the second largest bay in the world, off the coast of Brittany.  You would cross to the abbey during low tide,…

  patrickjegan

  May 17, 2014

  History, Holding onto the Past, Mountains and Memories, Real Personal History, Things of Bauty, Travels

  Benedictines, Brittany, Fortress, France, Hundred Years War, Mont Saint-Michele, Normandy, Paris, the year 708 AD, tides, Tours

• Passports 3: Passing Through the Fields of Death

  We left Paris on a crisp bright May morning.  This was the only day-long excursion we booked in advance.  We were going to visit Mont St. Michele in Brittany.  The trip would take us four hours one way, in a northwest direction to this 850 year old Abbey mountain. Our route took us through the…

  patrickjegan

  May 16, 2014

  History, Holding onto the Past, Travels

  70 years after d-day, blood of war, D-Day, death, GI’s, lonely death, memorial day, Normandy, Paris, soldiers, war