During our Cornish break my wife took me by surprise by saying that she would like to walk to Mount St Bernard’s Abbey, provided that the tide was right. This was a bit confusing. Mount St Bernard’s Abbey is in Leicestershire, and is several hundred feet above sea level. If the tide comes in at this Abbey we are all in deep trouble. Of course she meant St Michael’s Mount, an island with a castle, approached via a causeway at low tide, which is located off of the village of Marazion. We arrived soon after noon, had three hours to wait for low tide, and so we had no option but to find a table on a pub terrace overlooking the causeway, and just watch the world go by. This chap, with a young lady close behind, had attempted to cycle along the causeway following people who had decided to wade through the ebbing water, but turned back, presumably because an invisible uneven surface was too much of a challenge on a bike.
