Pontorson Vacations, Pontorson Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Our next destination after Paris was Mont St. Michel.  The closest town/train station to the abbey is Pontorson. Make note that you will be on the train for a while and will need to change trains at Rennes or Caen. The journey can take roughly 4 hours or more to get out to Pontorson, and that is with a TGV leg from Paris to Rennes or Caen. I wouldn't suggest a day trip to Mont St. Michel from Paris. If you go, stay a night in the area. First off there are only a couple of trains per…

Today was our first trip outside of Paris and mom's first train ride since the 80s :) And what a great first train ride since we were on the TGV high speed train, which is such a nice smooth ride compared to the other trains I've been on. Two hours later we were in Rennes with a 3 hour stopover. After finding an internet cafe to arrange a pickup in Pontorson, we found a cafe and had some tea and yet another crepe (but finally a dessert crepe this time). We were then off to Pontorson, wh…