Final-year school trip to Mont-Saint-Michel and Saint-Malo: crossing the bay, the abbey and the corsair city (4 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Saint-Malo

• Departure from your school very early in the morning, at the agreed time, daytime drive to Brittany (about 8 hours from Brussels, excluding stops).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Lunch at your own expense on the way.
• Arrival in Saint-Malo in the late afternoon and first walk on the Sillon beach.
• Check-in at the accommodation for three nights, dinner and quiet evening.

Day 2: Crossing the bay and Mont-Saint-Michel

• Drive to the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (about 1 hour); the day's timetable is set according to the tides.
• Crossing of the bay on foot with an approved guide, from Genêts to the Mount (about 7 km, barefoot), with explanations about the tides and the quicksand.
• Lunch at your own expense, then visit to the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, from the abbey church to the hanging cloister.
• Walk down the Grande Rue and the ramparts, shuttle to the car park and return to Saint-Malo by coach.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Saint-Malo intra-muros, Grand Bé and Cancale

• Walk around the ramparts of Saint-Malo intra-muros and discovery of the walled town, rebuilt after 1944.
• At low tide, walk across to the islet of Grand Bé and Chateaubriand's tomb; visit to Fort National (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then visit to the Grand Aquarium of Saint-Malo (on request).
• Drive to Cancale (about 30 min), its oyster port and the Pointe du Grouin, facing the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: Return to your school

• Rooms vacated after breakfast, luggage loaded onto the coach.
• Early morning departure, daytime drive back to Belgium with regular stops.
• Lunch at your own expense on the way.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.