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I'm surprised there's no mention of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, the twin of this site. Whilst I appreciate the script was not about the site in general but a specific aspect, it does still surprise me
@@rishikeshwagh it was! It really is 90% the abbey and like 10% the expensive street of tourist shops and bars though so don’t expect too much in the way of stuff to do
We have another unconquered fortress near where I live: Königstein Fortress. There's too reasons for that. 1) It's next to impossible to impossible to assault as it pretty much covers the entirety of a 240 m high (relative to the close river Elbe) rock plateau. 2) It had little strategic value as the Saxon army was always defeated elsewhere so it just served as a refuge and treasure vault during war. It was also a famous prison.
Castles have pretty universally been used as prisons as well. It's very convenient to hold political prisonners as it's just as hard to infiltrate as it is to escape.
4:00 - Chapter 1 - A holy tourist attraction 6:25 - Chapter 2 - The fortress of god 8:45 - Chapter 3 - Changing times 10:55 - Chapter 4 - A new era 13:30 - Chapter 5 - Loving something to death 16:00 - Chapter 6 - Saving the mount 18:25 - Chapter 7 - Mount saint michel today 21:15 - Conclusion
Although not particularly religious, visiting spots considered holy - no matter the faith - makes wonder at the devotion that made such places possible. Thanks.
Both Mont Saint Michel and St Michael's Mount on the opposite side of the channel in Cornwall are special places. I've been fortunate enough to visit both. They're both spectacular.
I've never been to it but it does look a fantastic, mystical place by virtue of it's topography I suspect, much like Glastonbury in England. Keep up the good work my friend.
I went there on an American Memorial Day Normandy Tour. Unbelievably spectacular. Why it's not considered a wonder of the world, I don't know. I'd love to live there! Don't know how often spots open up for employment/living there, but I'd work for free as long as I got to spend my days there. I can survive off of the crepe scraps and free coffee.
I've been saying for years that if one has salt, one has solved 99% of the seasoning problem. I agree that salt-grazing would make the lamb too delicious for words.
I haven't watched this channel for a while due to youtube not showing the videos but when did the hosts change from Simon to Eric and why ??????? But what ever the reason is/was I like this guy.
We visited here a couple of years ago, I was stationed in Germany and we went from Bremerhaven all the the way down the coast of Europe and eventually made it there. Such a beautiful place.
Been there loads of times whilst on holiday in France 🇫🇷 Being from Wales we had the salt marsh lamb and it’s definitely worth having. We visited in the late 80’s and 90’s so I’ve never seen the bridge, I remember the car parks and the causeway. They were eyesores and from the footage the footbridge looks much better. I’m sure the scientists and environmentalists are right and the irreversible damage was done by the causeway over 100+ years, ensuring that the island will once more become a part of the mainland in the future. I’m sure it won’t lose its charm whatever the outcome.
Thanks for this one! In my English class they had a video about France(the class was also a way to expose my students to other cultures. ) and I was always curious about it.
If you're from the US, rent a car & drive to see Saint Mont Michel. It is WELL worth it, and they drive on the same side of the road as us 😂 you can also swing over to the D-Day beaches & US Cemetery on the same day. It was easily my favorite day on at 14 day euro-trip
Mont-Saint-Michel is a World Wonder in Civilization VI. Mont-Saint-Michel is featured in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege in which the abbey is overrun by demons in both 16th and 21st centuries and subsequently destroyed. A fictionalized version of the island, Beaumont-Saint-Denis, serves as the location for Sniper Elite 5's third mission. The castle is also the inspiration for the site of the climatic final battle in the air combat video game The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, in which it is an abandoned enemy fortress with still-operational anti-air turrets; it also inspired Dark Souls' New Londo Ruins.
@@geographicstravel I’m balding, don’t wear my sunglasses in a way that say says ‘ass hat’, and I’m not marked up like a pirate 🏴☠️ (aaaatgh), however, I do know my food and wine.
I have to say I stopped watching after Simon left, I do still listen to these at work. Although, I don't watch 9/10 Simon's videos either anymore, so maybe it's unrelated, lmao
@@GoatTheGoat No, it isn’t. In 1879 the French constructed a causeway to Mont-Saint-Michel in order to bring more tourists to it. Over the course of the next 125 years, silt that would have been swept out by the tides was instead accumulating on its banks, which resulted in the accelerated silting up of the entire bay. If allowed to continue, it would have made the Mount a permanent part of the mainland by 2040. So the project to “save” it was replacing the causeway with a bridge and building a damn designed to scour away silt through tidal action. Again, if you’d actually watched the video, the words “global warming” or “climate change” don’t even appear in it, I know this because I’m the one that wrote the script.
@@yankeecrazy9 The script may not use those key phrases. But it is still offensively political because of the forced spin making the subject an anthropomorphic environmental disaster. Next time write a neutral script and allow the viewer decide the merits for themselves.
