St. Michael's Mount - March 8, 2013

A new senior couple has just arrived in the Plymouth Zone, so March was probably our last “official” visit to Cornwall to inspect the Sisters’ flats in Exeter and St. Austell.  We decided to take a gamble on the weather and go visit St. Michael’s Mount at Marazion, 3 miles east of Penzance, afterwards.

It is an English counterpart to Mont Saint-Michel in France and its history is interconnected…at one point it was a monastery under the direction of the French Abbey.  Eventually a “castle” was built and the St. Aubyn family governed and took possession of the island centuries ago.  It is still owned by that family.  Lord St. Levan is the current tenant.  We booked a room at a beautiful Bed and Breakfast and stayed one night and took a 2-hour-plus guided tour of the island the next day.  It was raining the evening we arrived, but the next day turned out to be a beautiful one for the tour.  We must be living right!!

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