Nicole Bienvenue La France: National Lampoon's Family Vacation

Day 4: Mont Saint-Michel and Dinard

Entering the Town

Friday, we got up early, ate breakfast at the hotel, and headed north to Mont St.-Michel. I am pretty sure it was on our way here that we found F**kville (later to be found again). Turns out France has a numerous amount of towns named this. With the terrible French signage and the use of only a map, it was bound for us to get lost sooner or later, and we did. We were on some road, in the middle of nowhere, when my dad got fed up and declared that "we are in F***ville. Do you know where we are? No, then we are in F**kville," until alas a little sign on the side of the road told us where we were. This became a reoccurring theme of our trip. We did make it to Mont St. Michel and we went all the up and toured the abbey, which was really neat. It was probably one of the most interesting places I have been to this year. The town was really old and festive, but there were a lot of tourists there that sort of devalued it. On our way out, we were driving along the coast when all of a sudden we saw a sheep crossing sign. We found that odd until we turned the corner and saw thousands upon thousands of sheep for as far as the eye could see. It was unbelievable how many there were. We actually turned around so that we could take a picture. We rolled down the window and immediately regretted it because it smelled so badly. After encountering the sheep, we made our way to Dinard. Unfortunately when we got there it was down pouring, so we weren't able to spend much time touring the city. The next morning on our way out, we did a quick tour and snapped a few pictures before we were on the road again.