I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...

For more than a thousand years, the distant silhouette of Mont Saint-Michel has sent pilgrims’ spirits soaring. Today, it does the same for tourists. This island abbey in the Normandy region of France ...