MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France -- While much of the world worries about how to stop sea levels from rising, engineers in this corner of France want to spend $260 million to do just the opposite: raise the tides back up to save a national treasure. With its Gothic abbey soaring 558 feet above a mostly flat, nondescript Normandy landscape, Mont-Saint-Michel is both a feat of human will and a quirk of nature, planted in a tidal system that each day brings the sea surging in as fast as a trotting horse to fill the bay with surf.
Fue así como el prelado hizo erigir en ese mágico lugar una iglesia y una abadía a la que llamó Mont Saint Michel en honor al arcángel; dando origen a una construcción que habría de convertise en una de las maravillas del mundo. Próxima a la bahía del Mont Saint Michel, se levanta Avranches, la sede del obispado, desde la que se vislumbra la inquietante figura del Mont Saint Michel. Durante la Revolución francesa, en el Ayuntamiento de Avranches se depositaron 14.000 libros impresos entre los siglos XVI y XIX. Esos antiguos textos incunables y manuscritos de la Edad Media, algunos escritos sobre pergamino, formaban parte de la biblioteca de la Abadía del Mont Saint Michel y de otras importantes bibliotecas benedictinas de Francia.
Not everyone is as sentimental about the town the media love to call The Big Easy (locals are divided about the nickname's legitimacy). A friend with a longer city history than mine calls her "an old whore gone bad in the teeth." Bourbon Street can be hard and nasty, Mardi Gras attracts every unsavory lowlife in a thousand-mile radius; the poverty in many neighborhoods approaches Third World hopelessness. This is the town where even the most cautious tourist may have made his first acquaintance with the handgun as a bargaining chip in a painful transaction. Yet most of the natives who could afford to be kind to strangers--and many who couldn't--were preternaturally kind, so inclusive and permissive that the stranger felt as if he'd been living his everyday life in a straitjacket. Ordina...
PARIS -- Angry French farmers dumped millions of liters of fresh milk next to one of France's most famous tourist sites on Friday to denounce the slumping cost of milk and an EU plan to end production quotas, which could further drive prices down. APLI, a small dairy farmer's union that organized the protest, said more than 1,000 farmers and 300 tractors took part in the event, pouring 925,000 gallons of milk onto fields next to the famed Mont Saint-Michel. The Medieval island monastery is one of the most visited sites in France and is next to the Normandy and Brittany regions, which are both big milk producers.
Recently, I wrote that my wife and I are planning a trip to Normandy in northern France for late June. I asked for travel tips from readers who have vacationed in this part of the world and received more than a dozen suggestions. I'll share some in this installment and the one to follow. From Don Colton:
Readers share more travel tips to assist my wife and I when we travel to the Normandy area of Northern France in June. From Kim Schiavone:
Happy New Year to one and all. It's hard to believe that 2006 is coming to an end. It has been a good year. I started the year with a group to Cuba in April, went on to Nicaragua (to visit my daughter Erin Cox, who was working with a midwife in Esteli, Nicaragua), then to Alaska in June, Russia and the Baltic countries in August, Southern Africa in September and ended the year in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, in October and November for the annual polar bear migration. I enjoyed every trip, but the animal trips are still my favorite. When I meet people at social events I always hear, "I bet you've been everywhere." Not by a long shot. I have traveled considerably, but we live in a big world and there is so much to see.
In March, I told you about a trip I was planning along the Natchez Trace Parkway that would end at the historic Mississippi city with the same name. I asked those who have made such a trek to share travel tips. Several of you did, and I acted on a few of your suggestions.
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