24 Apr 2023
This was a special birthday present for my husband from our daughter. We were met and picked up by the professional driver in Saint-Malo to visit Mont St. Michel in northern France. He was a great driver, very kind and a wealth of information about all of France.
When we arrived at our destination, he parked and walked with us to meet our tour guide. She also was amazing. She had all the right tickets and knew everything from which restrooms to use to which kings did what, and which architecture was from which century, and how the monks have lived there- and still do. She went back and forth from English to French, depending on which language we used to ask our questions. (Also, she either knew the people who worked there when she brought us to the front of the lines, or she knew what to say to them, so that they always let us through, and she knew all sorts of shortcuts to avoid the crowds!) Then she took us back to our driver, who was kind enough to drop us off at a different location than where we had met him in the morning.
This was a red-carpet treatment day, from the beginning to the end.
It was perfect.