Clare Gaylard Glass 

We took the kids to Mont St Michel in France for their first time and they were suitably blown away, insisting we come back again at night and high tide. As kids we used to approach it by walking across the bay, enchanted by the fact that the tide came in 'Faster than a man on a galloping horse' and intrigued to see if our parents had the tide times right. Reaching the dark, caverous cathedral at the top and looking out at the endless sea around gives you a glorious concentration of man-made and natural elements.