Mont Saint-Michel Bay
Vast tidal bay of shifting sands and quicksand, swept by Europe's highest tides around a rocky abbey.
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This guide to Mont Saint-Michel Bay, on the Normandy coast, starts in ten sixty-four with an English earl, Harold Godwinson, riding to war beside Duke William of Normandy across the mouth of the Couesnon. From there it turns to the flats themselves: the tides that are said to gallop, and the old causeway that nearly let the sand win. Best heard from the ramparts or the bridge, looking out over the open sand.
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