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
london, but it s quite warm. even further north in hull 28 degrees celsius. 28, as well, in cambridge. heading into the weekend s weather prospects. well, we re going to see showers and thunderstorms break out. initially, they ll work across northern ireland, wales and western england before spreading northwards and then kind of leaping into northeast england and scotland. now, some of those downpours are likely to be really torrential, the heaviest of which could bring 50 millimetres of rain in the space ofjust a few hours and could bring some areas, some flash flooding. but equally, some areas will completely dodge the downpours all day and just keep the warm sunshine temperatures, well, high twenties for parts of eastern england, 27 or so for parts of northern scotland. but in the west, a cold front working through the weather, gradually turning a little bit fresher with temperatures just easing back a little bit. a wimbledon, well, chance of a shower might see a rain