1000 years of mont st michel. there is the shadow of mont st michel on the sand. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. give them some time. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. you kind of get an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see, i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont st 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 1000th anniversary of the construction of the church. how on earth did they construct something like this 1000 years ago? yeah. this is the best of mediaeval engineering. and it started off as a sanctuary dedicated
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. oh, yeah! the parps and toots that make this port one of a kind. horns blaring. one, two, three, four, five. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. twittering and squawking. yeah, he s thinking about it. all right. we ll give him some time. here he comes. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 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. you can see it. i ve just 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
A group of D-Day veterans are re-enacting their famous Channel crossing in the run-up to the 80th anniversary celebration for the landings at Normandy.