 We are pretty much alone here. No one is here. Absolutely no one. It's unbelievable. We are just the whole park for ourselves. Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Olli. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin. It's seven in the morning. The sun has just risen and we are heading today to Mont Saint-Michel. So we're just having our breakfast now and a coffee and then we've got about an hour's drive until we get there. For those of you who don't know, Mont Saint-Michel is this small tidal island just off the coast of Normandy and they've actually built the whole thing into one big island monastery. We've only seen pictures so far but it looks really, really beautiful. So we thought we would wake up early and hit the road, get over there and go and check it out. When we eat breakfast in the van, we can't sit together. Just have one seat in the back and one seat here. I just realised that in English it's actually called Saint-Michel's Mount but in French, Mont Saint-Michel. So there you go. Yesterday we found this amazing place here, a live overlander and the place has everything. It's like there's a shower and we have a little lake close by where you can just walk around. You can swim in the lake which is really amazing. Then there's a little forest as well. You have probably 30 spots here to park up your mobile home, camper van. You can pitch up tents. It's really amazing. It's absolutely incredible and this is all for free so you can just find the place and then chill out here with your family, with your friends or just come by here and sleep for a night. It's absolutely incredible. I'm so impressed really. It's so cool. Another really cool, most of the time, recycling. So I sent Audi off to do our recycling. Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's huge. It's just like it looks so out of place. It looks absolutely incredible. It looks surreal. We're nearly at the car park. Let's check the car park out. See how busy it is if it's busy or not. Do we see? Yeah, we've arrived here quite early. It's just before nine. Yeah, just before nine o'clock. So hopefully we'll have some people. So impressive. Oh my god. It looks like a painting. Pretty nice from here. And normally this is visited by more than three million people a year but as you can see it's pretty much the perfect time to come because there are not three million people here. It's practically empty. So if you want to visit St. Michael's Mount now the time is now because you can see we are pretty much alone here. No one is here. Absolutely no one. It's unbelievable. We was just the whole park for ourselves like at the moment. It's really incredible. St. Michael's Mount is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and you can see why it is absolutely spectacular just sitting there on this small island rising out of the ocean. Just wow amazing. Even to this day there's still a population of 30 people living here which is an absolutely amazing place to live. Could you imagine? Okay so we're coming up to the mount now and look how big it is up close. It's incredible. It's just like completely amalgamated into the island. So it's just half island half monastery. And it's standing there since 1300 years. Dumasque obligatoire. So in we go. Pull inside here. Yeah it feels like it's a city. This place looks like it's been frozen in time. The streets are so ancient looking. So we're coming now to the upper part of the mount. Yeah it keeps going up and up. You have to be reasonably fit to visit here because as you could imagine the whole place is just a massive hill. So we passed our vaccination security check and now we're heading up into the main abbey but I think we have to buy some tickets because so far we haven't bought any tickets so we're just going to go up and see what they say. Okay so we've bought some tickets and we picked up our little audio guide in anglais. So that we can understand a bit more about this place. So the ticket was 11 euro and the audio guide was 3. Okay should we press it? So we're up at the top now and the view from here is incredible. And so right behind us is the monastery which is built at the top of this hill. Yeah that's quite an undertaking to build that in the medieval times out here on this rock in the middle of the ocean. Respect to those guys and their faith of building that. So now we're up at the west terrace and here you have amazing panoramic views of the bay. The monastery itself which we're about to go inside. They actually got this whole place from an island which was about 35 kilometers this way. Another granite island so they took the stone from there to build everything around that we see. But it's not just a monastery here it's also a fortress and it's withstood many attacks over the centuries including surviving the whole hundred years war. Okay so we are inside the abbey now. Really impressive really beautiful huge holy place out here on this rock off the coast of France. In the crypt in the dungeons of Monsamichael. It's like a labyrinth in here. I don't know how much you can see it's just endless passageways and staircase and small shackles. Now apparently as well this whole place was used as a prison for a long time and this wheel was how they got up all the goods that they needed and apparently there was like six prisoners that would stand inside the wheel and walk and then they would lift up from the front over here. Absolutely incredible absolutely incredible just imagine being one of the prisoners in this wheel. Crazy. You always want to go like where you can't go. Back into the 21st century. It's like we had become medieval and we were totally into it and then you go through this door and suddenly you're in the gift shop and it's like oh okay I remember we're not monks. We're actually tourists so now we're on our way out. We thought we would come out here for one last panoramic look around before we head back down. Yes and it is a crazy view from all sides. This place look at this place. Really impressive from all angles from all sides. That is the UNESCO World Heritage Site for sure. This is the holy seagulls. Okay so we're going to take the shuttle bus back to the car park and say goodbye to Mosa Michel. Yes. That was an absolutely amazing place to visit. Absolutely. We loved it. We loved it so much so so much. Also we're back in the van and we are headed north up the coast. What we can find there. Yeah and it started to rain like crazy now. Yes. It's a good thing that we finished up when we did. We're pretty much just going to be driving through the rain for the next number of hours. Yeah. But it's a good opportunity. We can make some distance north and get to our next spot. If you enjoyed watching this video you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching guys. We will see you next time.