i m beginning this week in northern france, on a journey that two and a half million people take each year. i m kind of getting an idea of how popular this place must be, because it s off season, it s super cold but this bus is packed. i can see i vejust got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont saint michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany, in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary. it is the 1,000th anniversary of the construction of the church. how on earth did they construct something like this 1,000 years ago? mm hm. yeah, this is the best of medieval engineering. and it started off as a sanctuary dedicated to saint michel, saint michael, in the year 708. then it took off, you know, the pilgrims started to come. they had to come across the bay, so walk through the sands, and then i
here on mont saint michel. bonjour! bonjour, ade. ines and jean are two of them. their home has been injean s family since before the 17th century, and is full of trinkets and antiques. tell me about this? this is your house? 0ui. and what is it like to live in this place, day to day?
this is bbc news. we ll have all the headlines and the main story is at the top of the hour after this programme. stories at the top of the hour after this programme. this week on the travel show. ..mont saint michel marks its millennium. that view is pretty amazing. there s the shadow of mont saint michel on the sand. the pops and toots that make this port one of a kind. horn blasts one, two, three, four, five. - and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. yeah, he s thinking about it. all right. we ll give him some time. here he comes.