tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910346725253775612024-02-18T22:43:29.994-08:00Maxted Travels with Modestine 52011 - dateJill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-73614817425814082072022-12-31T09:56:00.001-08:002021-03-10T05:15:39.299-08:00Maxted travels with Modestine 5. Home pageThis is a full list of the postings in our most recent series of travel blogs.<br />
234 <a href="https://maxtedmiscellany.blogspot.com/2021/03/jill-and-ian-fifty-years-together.html">Fifty years together</a><br />
233 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/12/excursions-from-beverley.html">Excursions from Beverley</a><br />
232 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/12/north-yorkshire.html">North Yorkshire</a><br />
231 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-soggy-day-in-cumbria.html">A soggy day in Cumbria</a><br />
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Earlier pages,in reverse order, are:<br />
230 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/11/isle-of-man-south.html">Isle of Man-South</a><br />
229 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/11/isle-of-man-integrated-transport.html">Isle of Man Integrated transport</a><br />
228 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/11/isle-of-man-douglas.html"> Isle of Man, Douglas</a><br />
227 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/11/isle-of-man-north_7.html">Isle of Man, North</a><br />
226 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/11/crossing-to-isle-of-man.html">Crossing to the Isle of Man</a><br />
225 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/10/brittany-and-friends.html">Brittany, Friends and Home</a> <br />
224 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/10/ile-de-re-and-vendee_20.html">Ile de Re and Vendee</a><br />
223 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/10/lot-and-garonne.html">Lot et Garonne</a><br />
222 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/10/with-friends-in-bearn.html">With friends in the Bearn</a><br />
221 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/10/foix-and-lourdes.html">Foix and Lourdes</a><br />
220 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-languedoc.html">Return to the Languedoc</a><br />
219 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/07/via-millau-to-languedoc.html">Via Millau to the Languedoc</a><br />
218 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/07/from-franche-comte-to-puy-en-velay.html">From Franche-Comte to Puys-en-Velay</a><br />
217 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/07/from-normandy-to-franche-comte.html">From Normandy to Franche Comte</a><br />
216 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2019/07/across-channel.html">Across the Channel</a><br />
215 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/returning-home.html">Returning Home</a><br />
214 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/oxford.html">Oxford</a><br />
213 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/cambridge.html">Cambridge</a><br />
212 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/kings-lynn-and-ely.html">King's Lynn and Ely</a><br />
211 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/family-and-rutland_8.html">Family and Rutland</a><br />
210 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/barnard-castle-and-helmsbury.html">Barnard Castle and Helmsbury</a><br />
209 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/12/scotland-rosslyn-and-abbotsford.html">Scotland, Rosslyn and Abbotsford</a><br />
208 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-linlithgow.html">Scotland, Linlithgow</a><br />
207 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-glasgow-and-edinburgh_29.html">Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh</a><br />
206 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-dunfirmline.html">Scotland, Dunfirmline</a><br />
205 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-east-neuk.html">Scotland, East Neuk</a><br />
204 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-st-andrews.html">Scotland, St. Andrews</a><br />
203 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-dundee.html">Scotland, Dundee</a><br />
202 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-aberdeen.html">Scotland, Aberdeen</a><br />
201 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-nairn-lossiemouth-and-elgin_12.html"> Scotland - Nairn, Lossiemouth and Elgin</a><br />
200 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-route-500.html">Scotland, Route 500,</a><br />
199 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/scotland-castle-mey.html">Scotland - Castle Mey</a><br />
198 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/11/orkney.html">Orkney</a><br />
197 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/10/scotland-cromarty-wick-and-john-ogroats.html">Scotland - Cromarty, Wick and John O'Groats</a><br />
196 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/10/scotland-inverness.html">Scotland-Inverness</a><br />
195 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/10/scotland-oban-and-glencoe.html">Scotland - Oban and Glencoe</a><br />
194 <a href="https://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/10/introducing-scotland-gretna-dumbarton.html">Introducing Scotland</a><br />
193 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/08/returning-home.html">Returning home</a><br />
192 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/08/belgian-coast-and-northern-france.html">The Belgian coast and Northern France</a><br />
191 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/08/alkmaar-and-gouda.html">Alkmaar and Gouda</a><br />
190 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/08/into-holland.html">Into Holland</a><br />
189 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/08/to-danish-border.html">To the Danish border</a><br />
188 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/07/schwerin-travemunde-fehmarn-and-plon.html">Scherin, Travemunde, Fehmarn and Plon</a><br />
187 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/07/weimar-goslar-and-celle.html">Weimar Goslar and Celle</a><br />
186 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/07/from-bad-to-wurst.html">From Bad to Wurst</a><br />
185 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2018/06/mainly-metz.html">Mainly Metz</a><br />
184 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2018/06/drive-me-to-moon.html">Drive me to the moon</a><br />
183 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/cyprus-part-2-kyrenia-and-bellapais.html">Cyprus part 2 Kyrenia and Bellapais</a> <br />
182 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/cyprus-part-1-salamis-and-famagusta.html">Cyprus part 1 Salamis and Famagusta</a><br />
181 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/jura-and-normandy.html">Jura and Normandy</a><br />
180 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/brittany.html">Brittany</a><br />
179 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/south-wales.html">South Wales</a><br />
178 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/the-bibliotheque-alexis-de-tocqueville.html">The Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville</a><br />
177 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/1066-to-1944.html">1066 to 1944</a><br />
176 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/cotentin.html">Cotentin</a><br />
175 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/brittany.html">Brittany</a><br />
174 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/nantes.html">Nantes</a><br />
173 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/western-seaboard-of-france.html">Western seaboard of France</a><br />
172 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-bearn.html">The Bearn</a><br />
171 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.fr/2017/05/basque-country.html">Basque country</a><br />
170 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/bilbao.html">Bilbao</a><br />
169 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.fr/2017/05/asturias-revisited.html">Asturias revisited</a><br />
168 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.fr/2017/05/back-into-spain.html">Back into Spain</a><br />
167 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.fr/2017/05/portugal.html">Portugal</a><br />
166 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/galicia.html">Galicia</a><br />
165 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/asturias.html">Asturias</a><br />
164 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/cantabria.html">Cantabria</a><br />
163 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/semana-santander.html">Semana Santander</a><br />
162 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/villemagne-largentiere.html">Villemagne l'Argentière</a><br />
161 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/sete.html">Sète</a><br />
160 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/around-herault.html">Around the Herault</a><br />
159 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/back-in-midi.html">Back in the Midi</a><br />
158 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/gorges-du-tarn.html">Gorges du Tarn</a><br />
157 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/homeland-of-camisard.html">Homeland of the Camisard</a><br />
156 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/return-to-modestine-trail.html">Return to the Modestine trail</a><br />
155 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/auvergne.html">Auvergne</a><br />
154 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/vichy.html">Vichy</a><br />
153 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/back-in-village.html">Back in the village</a><br />
152 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/secrets-of-normandy.html">Secrets of Normandy</a><br />
151 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/brexit-to-france.html">Brexit to France</a><br />
150 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/scunthorpe.html">Scunthorpe</a><br />
149 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/taking-french-leave-in-paris.html">Taking French leave in Paris</a><br />
148 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/budapest-11.html">Budapest 11</a><br />
147 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/budapest-10.html">Budapest 10</a><br />
146 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/budapest-9.html">Budapest 9</a><br />
145 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/budapest-8.html">Budapest 8</a><br />
144 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/10/matyas-corvinus-library.html">Matyas Corvinus Library</a><br />
143 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/10/budapest-7.html">Budapest 7</a><br />
142 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/09/budapest-6.html">Budapest 6</a><br />
141 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/09/budapest-5.html">Budapest 5</a><br />
140 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/09/budapest-4.html">Budapest 4</a><br />
139 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/09/budapest-3.html">Budapest 3</a><br />
138 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/09/budapest2.html">Budapest 2</a><br />
137 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.hu/2015/09/budapest-1.html">Budapest 1</a><br />
136 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/amiens-dieppe-and-le-havre.html">Amiens Dieppe and Le Havre</a><br />
135 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/guise.html">Guise</a><br />
134 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/troyes-to-montmirail.html">Troyes and Montmirail</a><br />
133 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/eastern-france.html">Eastern France</a><br />
132 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.fr/2015/05/baden-wurttemberg.html">Baden Wurttemberg</a><br />
131 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.fr/2015/05/bavaria.html">Bavaria</a><br />
130 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.de/2015/05/lower-austria.html">Lower Austria</a><br />
129 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.at/2015/05/vienna.html">Vienna</a><br />
128 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.at/2015/05/klosterneuburg.html">Klosterneuburg</a><br />
127 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.at/2015/05/hungary-for-more.html">Hungary for more</a><br />
126 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/hundertwasser-and-bad-blumau.html">Hundertwasser and Bad Blumau</a><br />
125 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/italy-into-austria.html">Italy into Austria</a><br />
124 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/mantova-and-lake-garda.html">Mantova and Lake Garda</a><br />
123 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.it/2015/04/italia-and-verona.html">Italia! and Verona</a><br />
122 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.it/2015/04/italian-lakes.html">Italian Lakes</a><br />
121 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/mainly-about-water.html">Mainly about water</a><br />
120 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/champagne-wedding.html">Champagne wedding</a><br />
119 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/wedding-invitation.html">Wedding invitation</a><br />
118 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/brittany-and-home.html">Brittany and Home</a><br />
117 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/crossing-la-loire.html">Crossing la Loire</a><br />
116 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/trier-luxembourg-and-northern-france.html">Trier, Luxembourg and Northern France</a><br />
115 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/worms-and-saarburg.html">Worms and Saaburg</a><br />
114 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/rothenburg-and-detwang.html">Rothenburg and Detwang</a><br />
113 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/augsburg-and-nordlingen.html">Augsburg and Nordlingen</a><br />
112 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/lake-constance-and-ravensburg.html">Lake Constance and Ravensburg</a><br />
111 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/jura-interlude.html">Jura interlude</a><br />
110 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/across-france-to-jura.html">Across France to the Jura</a><br />
109 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/april-in-paris.html">April in Paris</a><br />
108 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/dinard-and-mont-st-michel.html">Dinard and Mont St. Michel</a><br />
107 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/dinan.html">Dinan</a><br />
106 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/lannion-and-tregastel.html">Lannion and Tregastel</a><br />
105 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/josselin-and-pontivy.html">Josselin and Pontivy</a><br />
104 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/vannes.html">Vannes</a><br />
103 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/presquile-de-rhuys.html">Presqu'Ile de Rhuys</a><br />
102 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/carnac-and-quiberon.html">Carnac and Quiberon</a><br />
101 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/quimper-and-concarneau.html">Quimper and Concarneau</a><br />
100 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/locronon-and-crozon-peninsula.html">Locronon and the Crozon Peninsula</a><br />
99 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/exploring-britain-5-purbeck.html">Exploring Britain 5 Isle of Purbeck, Cumbria and Yorkshire</a><br />
98 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/plymouth-and-cremyl.html">Exploring Britain 4 Plymouth and Cremyl</a><br />
97 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/brixham.html">Exploring Britain 3 Brixham</a><br />
96 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/west-penwith.html">Exploring Britain 2 West Penwith</a><br />
95 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/up-north.html">Exploring Britain 1 Up North</a><br />
94 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/france-using-byways.html">France using the byways</a><br />
93 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/flooded-france.html">Flooded France</a><br />
92 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/haut-jura.html">Haut-Jura</a><br />
91 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/05/paper-and-print.html">Paper and print</a><br />
90 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/05/lyon.html">Lyon</a><br />
89 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/04/issoire-and-usson.html">Issoire and Usson</a><br />
88 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/04/paradise-regained.html">Paradise regained</a><br />
87 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/04/homage-to-catalona.html">Homage to Catalonia</a><br />
86 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/04/homage-to-catalona.html">Paradise lost</a><br />
85 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/04/visitors.html">Visitors</a><br />
84 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/03/seeking-some-sunshine.html">Seeking some sunshine</a><br />
83 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/03/paris-in-snow.html">Paris in the snow</a><br />
82 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/02/shingles.html">Shingles</a><br />
81 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2013/01/bucharest.html">Bucharest</a><br />
80 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/constanta-and-black-sea.html">Constanta and the Black Sea</a><br />
79 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/bad-tolz-and-munich.html">Bad Tolz and Munich</a><br />
78 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/murnau-and-kochelsee.html">Murnau and Kochelsee</a><br />
77 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-black-forest-and-source-of-danube.html">Black Forest and source of Danube</a><br />
76 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/montbeliard-belfort-and-colmar.html">Montbeliard, Belfort and Colmar</a><br />
75 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/foret-de-chaux-and-haut-jura.html">Foret de Chaux and the Haut Jura</a><br />
74 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/return-to-franche-conte.html">Return to Franche-Comte</a><br />
73 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/seine-and-provins.html">Seine and Provins</a><br />
72 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/oh-to-be-in-england-3.html">Oh to be in England 3 - West Cornwall</a><br />
71 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/oh-to-be-in-england-2.html">Oh to be in England 2</a><br />
70 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/09/oh-to-be-in-england-1.html">Oh to be in England 1</a><br />
69 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/06/cologne-and-home.html">Cologne and home</a><br />
68 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/sjaelland.html">Sjaelland</a><br />
67 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/copenhagen.html">Copenhagen</a><br />
66 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/into-denmark.html">Into Denmark</a><br />
65 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/koogs-and-halligen.html">Koogs and Halligen</a><br />
64 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/husum.html">Husum</a><br />
63 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/schleswig-and-around.html">Schleswig, Haithabu, Eutin and Plon</a><br />
62 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/celle-and-lubeck.html">Celle and Lubeck</a><br />
61 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/hannover.html">Hannover</a><br />
60 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/05/kroller-mueller-gallery.html">Kroller-Mueller Gallery</a><br />
59 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/plantin-moretus-museum-anwerp.html">Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp</a><br />
58 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/tuesday-17th-april-2012-antwerp-belgium.html">Antwerp</a><br />
57 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/belgium.html">Brussels</a><br />
56 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/vimy-tournai-and-lille.html">Vimy, Tournai and Lille</a><br />
55 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/of-merit.html">Arras</a><br />
54 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/once-more-unto-breach.html">Once more unto the Breach</a><br />
53 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/04/back-to-europe.html">Back to Europe</a><br />
52 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/02/languedoc-to-normandy.html">Languedoc to Normandy</a><br />
51 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/02/malaga-to-perpignan.html">Malaga to Perpignan</a><br />
50 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/02/granada-and-alhambra.html">Granada and the Alhambra</a><br />
49 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2012/01/high-barbary.html">High Barbary</a><br />
48 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/ribat-to-rabat.html">Ribat to Rabat</a><br />
47 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/fez.html">Fez</a><br />
46 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/ribat-el-kheir.html">Ribat el-Kheir</a><br />
45 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/moulay-idriss-and-meknes.html">Moulay Idriss and Meknes</a><br />
44 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/volubilis.html">Volubilis</a><br />
43 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/chefchaouen.html">Chefchaouen</a><br />
42 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/dire-straits.html">Dire Straits</a><br />
41 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/hasta-la-vista-espagna.html">Hasta la Vista Espana</a><br />
40 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/ronda.html">Ronda and Jimena de la Frontera</a><br />
39 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/cordoba.html">Cordoba</a><br />
38 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/la-mancha.html">La Mancha</a><br />
37 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/aquitaine.html">Aquitaine</a><br />
36 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/dordogne.html">The Dordogne</a><br />
35 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/potiers-and-perigueux.html">Poitiers and Perigueux</a><br />
34 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/roma-therapy.html">A Roma therapy</a><br />
33 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/08/finisterre-part-2.html">Finisterre part 2</a><br />
32 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/08/finisterre-part-1.html">Finisterre part 1</a><br />
31 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/07/tour-de-france.html">Tour de France</a><br />
30 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-dame-aux-camelias.html">La Dame aux Camelias</a><br />
29 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/07/mainly-chartres.html">Mainly Chartres</a><br />
28 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/07/ecole-de-nancy.html">Ecole de Nancy</a><br />
27 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/nancy-and-vosges.html">Nancy and the Vosges</a><br />
26 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/strasbourg.html">Strasbourg</a><br />
25 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/heidelberg-and-buchsal.html">Heidelberg and Buchsal</a><br />
24 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/thuringia.html">Thuringia</a><br />
23 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/auschwitz-and-wroclaw.html">Auschwitz and Wroclaw</a><br />
22 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/slovakia-to-krakow.html">Slovakia to Krakow</a><br />
21 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/with-friends-in-hungary.html">With friends in Hungary</a><br />
20 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/humor-monastery-to-merry-cemetery.html">Humor Monastery to Merry Cemetery</a><br />
19 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/return-to-romania.html">Return to Romania</a><br />
18 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/veiliko-tarnavo-to-ruse.html">Veliko Tarnavo to Ruse</a><br />
17 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/moving-on-at-last.html">Moving on at last</a><br />
16 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/sofia.html">Sofia</a><br />
15 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/blageovgrad.html">Blageovgrad</a><br />
14 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/rila-mountains.html">Rila Mountains</a><br />
13 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-bulgaria.html">Introducing Bulgaria</a><br />
12 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/edirne.html">Edirne</a><br />
11 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/gallipoli.html">Gallipoli</a><br />
10 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/dardanelles-and-troy.html">Dardanelles and Troy</a><br />
09 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/istanbul-2.html">Istanbul 2</a><br />
08 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/istanbul-1.html">Istanbul 1</a><br />
07 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/alexandroupoli.html">Alexandroupoli</a><br />
06 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/kavala-and-philippi.html">Kavala and Philippi</a><br />
05 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/chalkidiki.html">Chalkidiki</a><br />
04 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/mount-olympus-and-thessaloniki.html">Mount Olympus and Thessaloniki</a><br />
03 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/igoumenitsa-to-meteora.html">Igoumenitsa to Meteora</a><br />
02 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/corfu.html">Corfu</a><br />
01 <a href="http://modestine2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/by-land-and-sea-to-greece.html">By land and sea to Greece</a>Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-70544844981458277682019-12-04T13:57:00.001-08:002019-12-05T03:52:23.967-08:00Excursions from Beverley<b>Saturday 5th October 2019, Beverley</b><br />
We spent a few days at the end of our travels around the north of England with our son and family in Beverley. It was wonderful to leave the wet and the cold outside and spend a few nights sleeping warm and dry in a real bed surrounded by our family and entertained by our granddaughters.<br />
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At the weekend when Neil was not at work, together with our eldest granddaughter we visited the medieval village of Wharram Percy near Pickering. There was not an enormous amount to see with only the outline of the buildings remained and the ruined walls of the village church. It is though one of the best researched of Britains 3,000+ vestigal mediaeval villages.<br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Maxteds at Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Maxteds at Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Church, Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Church, Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. </div>
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Wharram Percy. Yorkshire. <br />
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Malton. Yorkshire.<br />
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Over the weekend we also visited a refuge for sick children. It turned out to be a very uplifting and happy experience and Jill enjoyed playing with some of the outdoor games and musical instruments as we explored the grounds with our granddaughters.</div>
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Jill discovers a musical talent! Yorkshire.<br />
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Fun time for children, Yorkshire. <br />
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Fun time for children, Yorkshire. <br />
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Strange fungi, Yorkshire. </div>
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Jill learns how to make a cupcake in the microwave, Beverley. Yorkshire. <br />
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Tastes pretty good! Beverley. Yorkshire. <br />
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<b>Monday 7th October 2019, Beverley</b></div>
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Yesterday Neil accompanied us on a trip to Burton Agnes Hall. It proved to be a very attractive property set in stunning gardens. Built as an Elizabethan manor house by Sir Henry Griffin between 1601 and 1610 near Driffield in the East Riding. </div>
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Burton Agnes Hall. Yorkshire. </div>
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Main staircase, Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Main staircase, Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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View from the main house, Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Long Gallery, Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Approach to the house, Burton Agnes. Yorkshire.</div>
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Burton Agnes Hall. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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Burton Agnes. Yorkshire. <br />
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<b>Tuesday 9th October 2019, Beverley</b><br />
We finally met up for lunch with Ian's friend and colleague Elizabeth from his work on the National body for local history studies. Burnby Hall lies midway between Beverley and York, where Elizabeth lives, and made an enjoyable meeting place for a reunion lunch together.</div>
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Jill and Elizabeth at Pocklington. East Yorkshire. <br />
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Pocklington. Burnby Hall Gardens, Yorkshire.<br />
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Pocklington museum. Burnby Hall Gardens, Yorkshire.</div>
Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-17006538221962639382019-12-04T13:55:00.001-08:002019-12-05T03:46:57.002-08:00North Yorkshire<b>Saturday 28th September 2019, Constable Burton</b><br />
Hawes was teeming with visitors and parked cars because of the week long International Cycling Championships taking place all over Yorkshire with the finals on Sunday. Roads were closed, decorated bicycles of all sorts lined the streets in every village we passed through and there were diversion signs all over the place. Once parked in Hawes we visited the Dales Countryside Museum in a former railway station opened in 1979. Galleries provided information and exhibits on the dairy industry, lead mining, social history of railway carriages, two Roman milestones, a beautiful bronze age spear head, looking as good as new and a Viking gold ring. <br />
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<b>Sunday 29th September 2019, Whitby</b><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;">The ground was soaked when we arrived at Constable Burton and it rained for much of the night. We squelched round Modestine in the morning, raising her supports and disconnecting the electricity and struggling with the soggy screen we had mistakenly enveloped her in the night before and which was now ripped and torn, clinging with the wet to her windscreen as we tried to peel it free! We feared that she would not be able to leave the pitch, sunken as she was in the slippery mud. But she surprised us both and we set off through the continuing rain for Northallerton, a market town with a wide main street but no suitable places to offer us a comforting coffee and cooked breakfast.</span><br />
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Guisborough Priory like many such ruinous monastic buildings is an inspiration for artists, but more attractive for us was the local Wetherspoons. We swallowed our principles and patronised Tim Martin's establishment for a brunch with a bottomless coffee mug, glancing at intervals through the windows to ascertain that the rain was continuing before refilling our mugs. On to Whitby in continuing wind and rain, thanks, we gathered, to storm Lorenzo! We found ourselves violently rocked and buffetted on our exposed clifftop with yet another grass pitch to negotiate in the morning! With a few other foolhardy and obdurate individuals in camper vans we were scattered across the wide windswept expanse of the clifftop.<br />
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Priory. Guisborough. Yorkshire. </div>
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Priory. Guisborough. Yorkshire.</div>
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<b>Monday 30th September 2019, Seamer</b><br />
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James Cooke Memorial Musuem,Whitby. Yorkshire.<br />
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James Cooke Memorial Musuem, Whitby. Yorkshire.</div>
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Harbour, Whitby. Yorkshire.<br />
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Johann Reinhold Forster. Naturalist. Cooke Memorial Museum. Whitby. Yorkshire.</div>
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Johann Reinhold Forster, Naturalist. Cooke Memorial Museum. Whitby. Yorkshire.</div>
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Johann Reinhold Forster, Naturalist. Cooke Memorial Museum. Whitby. Yorkshire.<br />
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Whitby. Yorkshire.</div>
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There was scarcely a goth to be seen, but Whitby still gave the air of being an alternative town, a northern cousin to Totnes. The large number of jet workshops produced sombre jewellery which must suit their gothic customers, matching their eye shadow, lipstick and varnished nails!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">In the evening we struck lucky for once discovering an inexpensive, friendly little campsite in the village of Seamer on a bus route linking Scarborough in one direction with York in the other! Even better, the rain stopped - well almost! </span>The campsite was much cheaper, smaller and more informal than yesterday's. In the site's bar that evening a group of seven folk music exponents were exchanging and sharing tunes and songs and we were invited into the snug, cosy bar to listen as we enjoyed a glass of the local beer and the rain returned once more, as we discovered when we had to face the weather and run back through the dark and the rain to return to Modestine. The rain set in once more and continued throughout the night.<br />
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We caught the bus, from the end of the little side road leading from the campsite, into Scarborough using our seniors bus passes. The rain continued until mid-morning. We walked down to the beach and across the sands to the Spa complex which opened, like so much of Scarborough's seaside development, in the 1870s. The open-air stage was of course closed - on a previous visit we had listened to tea-room music as we had coffee and cake. We were amused to discover a fraudulent painting of a royal visit to the cliff railway! The artist had given the crowd greeting Royalty prominence in the painting in accordance with what they were prepared to pay him for inclusion! There are three Victorian cliff railways, well used even on a chilly October day. Back along the promenade, past the cheesier seaside delights of coin-in-the slot machines, children's rides, gambling machines and shops selling plastic tat, into the old town with the world's smallest heritage centre in a phone box as well as many old houses dominated by the castle on the headland between the north and south bays. We returned through the pedestrianised shopping centre which seemed to have less empty buildings than many other towns and it was good to see the impressive market building reinstated with somewhat sparsely scattered stalls but including a craft bookbinder busily at work with his standing and laying presses and a fine display of half leather bindings in the window. Of more immediate use to us was an excellent and cheap cafe before we explored the Aladdin's cave of small shops in the vaults below. We ended the day with a visit to Woodend, at one time the home of the Sitwell family and housing the Sitwell Library which we had visited before, fortunately, as this time it was in use for a meeting. So we had to content ourselves with a photogaphic exhibition of everyday minutiae in Scarborough, rubbish skips, footprints on the sand, notice boards, architectural details. We were able to add one of our own - the Victorian handles in the exhibition gallery for operating the massive windows. </div>
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<b>Wednesday 2nd October 2019, Seamer</b><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;">Today we took the bus in the opposite direction to York, hoping to see our Local Studies Libraries Group friend Elizabeth, but there was nobody at home and we found the River Ouse in flood, reaching almost up to Skeldergate but fortunately leaving her house above the flood level. We wandered the medieval streets of the town centre, through the lively open-air market with a few hardy souls braving the fine but chill morning taking an al fresco coffee and snack. Then into the Shambles which seemed to be suffering from Pottermania with broomsticks hung outside shop doorways and wands in the windows. This, added to the plentiful array of ghost related activities, fantasy paraphenalia, skulls and skeletal bits and pieces, perhaps enhanced by the approach of Halloween, made the place feel more gothic even than Whitby. Added to this was the presence of Guy Fawkes, born in York with shops and eating places dedicated to him. We found a quiet non-fantasy place in the Shambles for a coffee and wandered round the Minster area, visiting the Treasurer's House which had a wonderful view from the main entrance across the beautiful formal gardens to the Chapter House. The Treasurer's House is rather a sham, but an impressive one. It was given to the National Trust in the 1930s by Frank Green, grandson of the inventor of the Economiser and joint inheritor of the massive fortune accumulated by the family through patent rights on an invention which reduced factory fuel bills by 25%. He was unmarried but a great art lover and spent much of his fortune on the acquisition of three houses in the Minster Close, knocking them into one, demolishing floors and moving walls to create a fake mediveval baronial hall and attached reception rooms, including three state bedrooms to receive members of the royal family in 1900. He seems to have been an unattractive person in many ways, very much a nouveau (tres) riche tradesman anxious to impress and make his mark on high society, in which he seems to have been very successful. His collection, around which the house was largely designed, contains some remarkable pieces but also some very ordinary ones - perhaps the dealers saw him coming. We walked a section of the city walls, passing an ice-house, unusually above ground, and a corner tower of the Roman fortress, something to add to our "I-Spy Romans in York" points gathered on previous visits.</span><br />
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Flooding on the Ouse, York. Yorkshire. </div>
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Flooding, York. Yorkshire. </div>
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Treasurer's house, York. Yorkshire. </div>
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York. Yorkshire. </div>
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York. Yorkshire. </div>
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Treasure's House, York. Yorkshire. </div>
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Treasure's House, York. Yorkshire.</div>
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Then back to our campsite on the luxurious bus which had the strange name of Coastliner, although the bulk of its journey was decidedly inland across the gently rolling and beautifully manicured countryside of North Yorkshire, through beautiful brick-built towns and villages without a hint of pebble-dash.<br />
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<b>Thursday 3rd October 2019, Beverley</b><br />
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We drove west towards Pickering, stopping at Thornton-le-Dale, a picture postcard village where everyone greeted us, including the band of yellow-jacketed men on ladders who were already putting up the Christmas lights. A good place for a coffee break where the waitress chatted to us about the relative merits of Yorkshire and Devon where she had spent happy family holidays in her childhood.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Only a couple of miles further on was Pickering. Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul with one of the finest collections of medieval mural paintings in the country dating from the 1450s. The North Yorkshire Steam Railway is based here and the town has an excellent and well patronised bookshop with much railway material and a well organised fiction collection which was used by regulars like a lending library, leaving with armfuls of titles and the cheery promise to return for another load next week!</span></div>
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Pickering. Yorkshire. </div>
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Our next stop, when we finally found it hidden away in the flooded back roads, was Nunnington Hall, a medieval manor house with a hall dating from the 15th century and many alterations and additions carried out in the 17th century. Neglected then refurbished largely as a hunting lodge by the Fife family. Many of the rooms were very gloomy and wood panelled. There was no lighting in use and it was difficult to appreciate much in the deepening gloom of an autumn afternoon. There was an extensive collection of mezzotint portraits including many after Reynolds. There was also a collection of miniature rooms.</div>
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<b>Friday 4th October 2019</b><br />
The following day we continued towards Beverley and our family<b>. </b>Along the way we called off at <span style="text-align: center;">Rievaulx</span> Terrace overlooking the remains of the Abbey below which we had already visited on a previous visit. This time we explored the terraces, managed by the National Trust and included with our annual membership card. Once through the woodland, the path emerges onto a lawn of mown grass,currently being browsed by sheep, liberally scattering their droppings as they munched, and leaving cloven hoofprints in the soft damp grass.<br />
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The stroll along the lawn offers a vista across the surrounding countryside while at either end of the lawn stands a small pavillion in classical style. From some 10 or 12 selected viewpoints specially prepared and maintained the visitor can admire different aspects of the ruined abbey romantically set out below, shrouded sometimes by trees, at others offering a bird's eye view inside its ruined walls. When we visited the browsing sheep had, to the National Trusts considerable annoyance, escaped from a neighbouring farm and were revelling in the tender flavour of the NTs freshly tended lawn! We felt it added considerably to its charm.<br />
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire.</div>
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire. </div>
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire. </div>
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire. </div>
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire. </div>
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire. </div>
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Rievaulx Terrace. Yorkshire. </div>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-85505885008872969492019-12-04T12:48:00.000-08:002019-12-05T03:32:29.554-08:00A soggy day in Cumbria<b>Tuesday 24th September 2019, Cumbria</b><br />
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This morning we visited the attractive little market town of Brampton just a few miles to the north of where we are camping. We found it to be charming despite the difficulty of parking. It has the most wonderful foodhall selling local produce and it is well worth anybody's making the tortuous journey through the maze of little roads to reach the town.</div>
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Brampton. Cumbria.<br />
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Brampton. Cumbria.</div>
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It also has a fine 18th century bridge while nearby is Lanercoste Priory, founded as an Augustinian foundation in 1169. It had lived through turbulent times in a lawless region. Its main claim to fame was that Edward I, the Hammer of the Scots was there for six months whilst on campaign. He was ill with dysentery so effectively, as he had the privy seal to hand (so to speak), England was ruled from Lanacoste almost on Hardian's Wall in 1306. He died shortly after leaving the Priory, at Burgh sands where there is a monument on the shore of the Solway Firth. We spoke to Cristine Boyce, a local parishoner in the church who had made a stained glass window as a gift to the priory church in 2006 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the royal visit. She had also worked as a needlewoman on the copy of the badly deteriorated dossal embroidery hung behind the main altar produced by William Morris & Co. in 1887. The dossal was commissioned by George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, an artist and philanthropist, who also worked with Burne-Jones and William Morris to provide stained glass windows for the priory. </div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria.</div>
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Lanercost. Cumbria. </div>
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We continued to Silloth for lunch at "Mrs Wilson's", a former bank building named after Kathleen Ferrier who had lived there before finding international fame as a contralto singer. The walls were covered with photos and memorabilia of the singer. Silloth was spaciously laid out as a seaside resort on the Solway Firth from the mid 19th century, with a grid pattern of wide streets, some of them cobbled, lined with low houses. A broad green leads down to the sea with views across to the Scottish hills on the far shore. For years the seaside town welcomed holiday makers and day trippers from Liverpool and Manchester as well as the other industrial towns of the north.<br />
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Silloth. Cumbria.</div>
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Kathleen Ferriers home, Silloth. Cumbria.<br />
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Rain reached Silloth as we were on the sea front about two o'clock. We ended up back at <span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cumwinton</span> after a fruitless search for alternative campsites with hard standing en route. The narrow lanes to the campsite were flooded and unsurprisingly, we are the only people here.</div>
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<b>Wednesday 25th September 2019, Cumbria</b></div>
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Today we returned to Bampton for some shopping en route to friends Peter and Jill in Wetherell. We found them surrounded, as ever, by books and piles of reviews. Peter, a lapsed librarian, indexer and friend of Jill's from student days in Manchester, still keeps a keen eye on publications and produces periodic surveys of recent publications of children's books and other literary genres. His wife, confusingly also called Jill, is keen on local history and genealogy and they are a great source of suggestions for books to read and places to visit. These and other matters were discussed over lunch in the village pub and we returned to their home for tea and biscuits. As we prepared to leave them and return to the campsite it was still teeming with rain and water was rising outside the entrance to their drive where a normally dry spring had started flowing copiously! We left during a break in the downpour and returned to our pitch in Cumwinton to learn that just a few miles away in Cumwhitton not a drop had fallen!</div>
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<b>Thursday 26th September 2019, Cumbria</b></div>
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The rain had set in this morning as we made our way south towards Kendal. The heavens opened just as we found one of the few free parking spaces in Penrith so we were forced back into Modestine and decided to continue as far as Sedbergh, a little stone town where the main road snaked between the houses leaving little room to manoeuvre. Jill had noticed a craft centre at Farfield Mill a little to the east of Penrith and it proved to be a perfect place to pamper ourselves with hot coffee, warm radiators and a flickering fireplace before browsing the wonderful display of craft and woollen goods. Outside, the rough moorland hill sheep bleated in the rain while they stoically munched their way across the sodden hillside. Come the spring and warmer weather they will be shorn to provide the continuing supply of wool needed for next year's warm scarves and gloves as well as those wonderful hand-produced soft woollen designer jumpers! Secure in the knowledge that we could neither afford, nor accommodate in Modestine any of the wonderful items for sale, we spent a happy couple of hours in the mill admiring the woollen craft work - spinning, weaving, knitting, felting - and a welcome coffee and jacket potato for lunch. </div>
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Sedbergh. Cumbria. </div>
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Sedbergh. Cumbria. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Farfield Mill near </span>Sedbergh. Cumbria. </div>
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Old Mill stream near Kendal. Cumbria. </div>
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Golf Course near Kendal. Cumbria. <br />
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<b>Friday 27th September 2019, Cumbria</b></div>
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Today with Jill, we visited the Ruskin and Turner exhibition in Kendal Art Gallery held on the occasion of the bicentenary of Ruskin's birth. The paintings showed a concentration on clouds and weather. Constable, Turner and Ruskin were all influenced by clouds and skyscapes - reflecting the effect of industrialisation on climate. Even then there was an awareness of global warming as they recorded the retreat of glaciers in the Swiss Alps. The main gallery had an excellent collection of portraits and other works by George Romney, a local lad made good. </div>
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Kendal Arts Centre, Cumbria. </div>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-28788771808111526542019-11-18T08:30:00.001-08:002019-11-18T09:38:39.638-08:00Isle of Man South<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Saturday 21st September 2019, Isle of Man</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This morning we cut across country, avoiding Douglas, to explore the southern tip of the island. The entire Island is roughly thirty miles wide and fifty long. Our first stop was Ballasalla to investigate Rushen Abbey, the major medieval monastice foundation on the Isle of Man and home to the chronicler of the Kings of Man during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Not a great deal of the monastery remained although there were attractive gardens. We failed to find the Monk's Bridge, the other major site in the little village, though suspect we may have driven across it without realising.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A couple of miles down the road we found Castletown, the former capital of the island where Rushen Castle is locate., The seat of the Kings and Lords of Man it is one of the most impressively complete medieval castles in Britain. Almost opposite it is the Old House of Keys, an 18th century building, unfortunately closed today for what was described as a "presentation".</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Castletown is set along the river mouth with a harbour that is attractive even at low tide with the seaweed-draped rocks. It is a little town with all the old-fashioned charm so lacking in Douglas. it has a good range of local shops, at least three banks and delightful terraces of housing with gardens luxuriant with fuchsias in full bloom. We had an ample lunch in the Bowling Green cafe, watching the locals roll their woods across the immaculate green. Ballasalla and Castletown are both in the parish of Rushen which explains why one contains Rushen Abbey and the other Rushen Castle.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoazLNizZIAxkEsnaLo8DMMu9oPJEB0e0qwsezGAk3j40YraBSo13OXJn22XqqstgovJBZVgqG-idOiuUugEkjwTwzF_bEhjK7P6G0PimzaJsbkQwk_wYx1x9-cHZntCQYFxZflUI6khsK/s1600/2019-09-21d.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoazLNizZIAxkEsnaLo8DMMu9oPJEB0e0qwsezGAk3j40YraBSo13OXJn22XqqstgovJBZVgqG-idOiuUugEkjwTwzF_bEhjK7P6G0PimzaJsbkQwk_wYx1x9-cHZntCQYFxZflUI6khsK/s320/2019-09-21d.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Castletown. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdcwoY0QtfFGJoPuaA3LxtySWJJzCHnllHJKhcIkYGnmAIqTlm6kuJwG5YWFSjrf_zYI_i8rhdvfyVtzNeE6DmfzcMUsgAPj1xHsbo8BCFZ34qT7i4MYftA-whZ4K7u9StElXiIBRXJOu/s1600/2019-09-21e.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdcwoY0QtfFGJoPuaA3LxtySWJJzCHnllHJKhcIkYGnmAIqTlm6kuJwG5YWFSjrf_zYI_i8rhdvfyVtzNeE6DmfzcMUsgAPj1xHsbo8BCFZ34qT7i4MYftA-whZ4K7u9StElXiIBRXJOu/s320/2019-09-21e.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Castletown. Isle of Man.</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNbloKlB9s4pjI_fcRIQqELf0L1vVMasHhOny0wu0fnkJc17BRBz98khDpheJzwDTd512YaHcjBbSZXpAjHXyP-yb73r_xBU-yYX7nek-eaFt4qkzIx40amsodaA-0N5zpAvNA_5GLpgI/s1600/2019-09-21g.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNbloKlB9s4pjI_fcRIQqELf0L1vVMasHhOny0wu0fnkJc17BRBz98khDpheJzwDTd512YaHcjBbSZXpAjHXyP-yb73r_xBU-yYX7nek-eaFt4qkzIx40amsodaA-0N5zpAvNA_5GLpgI/s320/2019-09-21g.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Castletown. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1NY6MlepBkosYWsgD4NbRRMQxzgf1LVAbpAcvcMS6mLw3mcmq4mnC5iv5ng9Cm2RsnwSg4qbGSduxA3cR0Tx8k6CDWKR6FCZtZgKnWEMGq8nQq-2Mo1xDbmlZ77UBtV7jkXnLzhju-NG/s1600/2019-09-21h.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1NY6MlepBkosYWsgD4NbRRMQxzgf1LVAbpAcvcMS6mLw3mcmq4mnC5iv5ng9Cm2RsnwSg4qbGSduxA3cR0Tx8k6CDWKR6FCZtZgKnWEMGq8nQq-2Mo1xDbmlZ77UBtV7jkXnLzhju-NG/s320/2019-09-21h.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Castletown. Isle of Man.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjTQ7cGcWcz_zLi9ZL_oa62MKD8Y40h9ZtHGwi_MBHXBezCA5l3m3lM4WTAVw25AWwCAfXUQx45IeqNlNL-biB4BOx_BEGaZjtm_yrtPHO4HHedXFtZ4Fj30GcmLRmjo6KSN-j-gBvUpF/s1600/2019-09-21ia.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjTQ7cGcWcz_zLi9ZL_oa62MKD8Y40h9ZtHGwi_MBHXBezCA5l3m3lM4WTAVw25AWwCAfXUQx45IeqNlNL-biB4BOx_BEGaZjtm_yrtPHO4HHedXFtZ4Fj30GcmLRmjo6KSN-j-gBvUpF/s320/2019-09-21ia.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Manx cat, Castletown. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Port St Mary was our next stop, set around a curved sandy bay with hotels and shops along a promenade high above. The promenade led down into the fishing village, a workaday place, attractive but without enticements for the tourists. The few hotels and guest houses at that end of the town seemed rather run down or had been converted into private residences. We learned that towns on the island are in a drive to rebrand themselves. A tee-shirt had been designed saying <i>Port St Mary - we hate Port Erin.</i> Cut-throat competition for a dwindling tourist market perhaps!</span><br />
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</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuOD7cA5YXytSwCTHTfhg68Hmt-cbn69f3NMFAURDq-K99EAsDqW4pG3xqCvovs9KDVGxJmyf2y-HpYhm3nbkCyafAkHqTwKPWxIPsmwdxPcprxTIAR7aonocytKWuj7X11iDZzgvjIM5/s1600/2019-09-21j.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuOD7cA5YXytSwCTHTfhg68Hmt-cbn69f3NMFAURDq-K99EAsDqW4pG3xqCvovs9KDVGxJmyf2y-HpYhm3nbkCyafAkHqTwKPWxIPsmwdxPcprxTIAR7aonocytKWuj7X11iDZzgvjIM5/s320/2019-09-21j.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> Port Saint Mary. Isle of Man. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZtxyHg2UaLb-6UBWw73KgkqMemKKnNu3MppfKkmf_gVx5qJIsFOgP1-seoSLjiX9aqfOWvT57Yiz7ZYFr0NvPiUTVxF3Abki7PBIUqG0vh1eaM6BZi7JEGs24j1MkknqRxBh0_YBiwOC/s1600/2019-09-21k.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZtxyHg2UaLb-6UBWw73KgkqMemKKnNu3MppfKkmf_gVx5qJIsFOgP1-seoSLjiX9aqfOWvT57Yiz7ZYFr0NvPiUTVxF3Abki7PBIUqG0vh1eaM6BZi7JEGs24j1MkknqRxBh0_YBiwOC/s320/2019-09-21k.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Port Saint Mary. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4bRtVOOpeW7OnI4jkTsARyV9JP-uRu9A-L9n6ts5Wf-vjS1dsMpZTD7_TDNTcr4kTXxb5RKdzl97jrXzD74mvEOU47CQIIaSaGrlqVbiX_j6IcWwYDJt3lRIjN6neTvsjSRy2htCEgmOq/s1600/2019-09-21l.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4bRtVOOpeW7OnI4jkTsARyV9JP-uRu9A-L9n6ts5Wf-vjS1dsMpZTD7_TDNTcr4kTXxb5RKdzl97jrXzD74mvEOU47CQIIaSaGrlqVbiX_j6IcWwYDJt3lRIjN6neTvsjSRy2htCEgmOq/s320/2019-09-21l.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Port Saint Mary. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Around half a mile offshore from the southern end of of the Isle of Man, across the sound, lies the Calf of Man. This is a nature reserve for wild birds, seals and hardy sheep. There is a seasonal warden but over the winter period the island is uninhabited. Roughly sixty new seals are born on the Calf each year and there is an ornithological research station and bird observatory during the nesting period. A ferry crosses with supplies for the seasonal residents and the warden.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD0sQuYuvBWmZcP7iZWSTBl8qvTzlv3GCR6SW-JS2ExwphSijR3yckzLNb4WrcmxPqoRbnXiFM_AbaDkDtrqOS5-7Mw1SgK92b7d5-e7nthvB0UEor-Uhx4g37ivCVoRnlwBiUAUBbw-82/s1600/2019-09-21m.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD0sQuYuvBWmZcP7iZWSTBl8qvTzlv3GCR6SW-JS2ExwphSijR3yckzLNb4WrcmxPqoRbnXiFM_AbaDkDtrqOS5-7Mw1SgK92b7d5-e7nthvB0UEor-Uhx4g37ivCVoRnlwBiUAUBbw-82/s320/2019-09-21m.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> Calf of Man. Isle of Man. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELQbFYiBM67x7pR61maZu3w2UrYQZSfBKis-hVN3cWVb_JaZIC_I3OmWb2hGJZguqz8S2s25NIwX4TM25cfCFKqMi2nHcVqT3YjVFQXbo8KeBjsiG0K8o1T5zrwVGz5UK75i6eZh2gcEM/s1600/2019-09-21n.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELQbFYiBM67x7pR61maZu3w2UrYQZSfBKis-hVN3cWVb_JaZIC_I3OmWb2hGJZguqz8S2s25NIwX4TM25cfCFKqMi2nHcVqT3YjVFQXbo8KeBjsiG0K8o1T5zrwVGz5UK75i6eZh2gcEM/s320/2019-09-21n.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Calf of Man. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VI_nrhSKlbC7W8IypUCY4j7DLNxP66_U_fWsmRoj0MldH6i-Sly03na-LfQZL9kSBjSVFVdEU3TmlsZ3hW2asOmPSUqs7lr0em7tVE0Am9In6vIgLB_gEjmwlQCAPzGBCsJeKA9EVRxd/s1600/2019-09-21o.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VI_nrhSKlbC7W8IypUCY4j7DLNxP66_U_fWsmRoj0MldH6i-Sly03na-LfQZL9kSBjSVFVdEU3TmlsZ3hW2asOmPSUqs7lr0em7tVE0Am9In6vIgLB_gEjmwlQCAPzGBCsJeKA9EVRxd/s320/2019-09-21o.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Calf of Man. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtd505cECzKnBS17geRvAUHtHNK9aEIeq6kFYbQ9MJhdTc-2UoH3Gt-trrO7ACAuXpGC9bYIq_QFrZqhs_4ygzRsutwpb6iet5eSnTfn7w6EO9cBAk8vGDWP69e6oC5F12Uya_i0LhT2y/s1600/2019-09-21p.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtd505cECzKnBS17geRvAUHtHNK9aEIeq6kFYbQ9MJhdTc-2UoH3Gt-trrO7ACAuXpGC9bYIq_QFrZqhs_4ygzRsutwpb6iet5eSnTfn7w6EO9cBAk8vGDWP69e6oC5F12Uya_i0LhT2y/s320/2019-09-21p.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Calf of Man. Isle of Man.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIauzQApekO6RimJFoX7gVWJREHCp2K0N7nOehNeuYq34iJaT3rguIFW6EdjoA0hdWgclcnP9odQcz61x9otTsQG8Thyrsp5ns-xm4D0X3aSV1C2jsLv8tdcMHOwCe5qWdPHW6VzRDOZD/s1600/2019-09-21r.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIauzQApekO6RimJFoX7gVWJREHCp2K0N7nOehNeuYq34iJaT3rguIFW6EdjoA0hdWgclcnP9odQcz61x9otTsQG8Thyrsp5ns-xm4D0X3aSV1C2jsLv8tdcMHOwCe5qWdPHW6VzRDOZD/s320/2019-09-21r.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Calf of Man. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Overlooking the sound stands a coffee shop and the venue is a hotspot for the Isle of Man residents who flock there to enjoy chocolate gateau and excellent coffee as they sit snug in the coffee lounge, sheltered from the strong, gusting winds of the sea, the landing area across the sound looking little more than a leap away.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We continued our way on a scenic drive above west coast with wonderful views across towards Castletown and the south-east of the island.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPwveunCeof83MrUGT25g7BpgMV_iImYni1kCXJqU7ONPCAfbv9zKHab3GhORuiqipkrBsZUPHQd2VclRwNb5EQM6L3yypdnIC6elmbvEf2x9vKS84CMDFgqPlvuKdwaitrpP7paFvfIL/s1600/2019-09-21s.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPwveunCeof83MrUGT25g7BpgMV_iImYni1kCXJqU7ONPCAfbv9zKHab3GhORuiqipkrBsZUPHQd2VclRwNb5EQM6L3yypdnIC6elmbvEf2x9vKS84CMDFgqPlvuKdwaitrpP7paFvfIL/s320/2019-09-21s.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> Earystane. Isle of Man. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQObX-eDF1sWBdnUM-qn0z6G4zBXyr9wy2Ur6jKFdNSF9zJM8TY-XwD8ll4zPpoZjBIKPtwWC7ZJ25BdpQdmUBzmb1ufmeVBWBHK_ZI2Mqy0Y236lU3Kn3toAfRlRleVJU0xcH4tbPKff_/s1600/2019-09-21t.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQObX-eDF1sWBdnUM-qn0z6G4zBXyr9wy2Ur6jKFdNSF9zJM8TY-XwD8ll4zPpoZjBIKPtwWC7ZJ25BdpQdmUBzmb1ufmeVBWBHK_ZI2Mqy0Y236lU3Kn3toAfRlRleVJU0xcH4tbPKff_/s320/2019-09-21t.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> South Barrule. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arriving at the village of St. Johns we found a megalithic tomb in the churchyard. There is also a Pinpound where stray animals we traditionally herded until claimed and a fine paid.</span><br />
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</span></div><div></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit76qeAiTCb2VpSsrHd6ATDbfbwsdhLCwRT3G3kqOr7aqeIhLSqr6f5zOMR5NCTmHZd2tkiibExmwGp0ilOW6737cjQtNyKB0VLVZCmckGScU9hHCxms6TmOkjulN8DSSP4tbC6r3kbSDR/s1600/2019-09-21u.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit76qeAiTCb2VpSsrHd6ATDbfbwsdhLCwRT3G3kqOr7aqeIhLSqr6f5zOMR5NCTmHZd2tkiibExmwGp0ilOW6737cjQtNyKB0VLVZCmckGScU9hHCxms6TmOkjulN8DSSP4tbC6r3kbSDR/s320/2019-09-21u.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">Remains of a megalithic tomb, Saint Johns. Isle of Man.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3fFz9BwOvp5F1nbqea3RcjfWkidXCp1M7CjWzcGRj5ovdlg689Lz-qgqyCeh0hexOxo6Ce0lyVt_Y5MNqXEJwaZPBzQuRot3GTPP4CTfU-Y2mL3c3n4uHD0M30P2tIajMWr7TwDvutnY/s1600/2019-09-21ua.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3fFz9BwOvp5F1nbqea3RcjfWkidXCp1M7CjWzcGRj5ovdlg689Lz-qgqyCeh0hexOxo6Ce0lyVt_Y5MNqXEJwaZPBzQuRot3GTPP4CTfU-Y2mL3c3n4uHD0M30P2tIajMWr7TwDvutnY/s400/2019-09-21ua.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ballaharra Stones, Saint Johns. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Isle of Man is believed to have the oldest parliament in the world dating back more than a thousand years and known as the Tynwald. The word is believed to be of Icelandic origin. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II and she is represented on the island by a lieutenant governor.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Island's national day is in July when all new laws and legislature are proclaimed from the Tynwald Mount. On this day the islands civic dignitaries gather in the churchyard of St. John's and progress along the ceremonial way to the mound where those assembled listen as the list is proclaimed. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH2lBQVX8hGHnvw5th7RIQqUOsOn5eimTxGUYNRLub3vuw8Ch0sluFtoq3owby-KAl0drPxpxRv6Jy5ok7XLy-PW_RsMNq2oHEwuU1JzUnxrNXykgMcseUxLcCH1tmIiVXRhASpnHesp0E/s1600/2019-09-21v.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH2lBQVX8hGHnvw5th7RIQqUOsOn5eimTxGUYNRLub3vuw8Ch0sluFtoq3owby-KAl0drPxpxRv6Jy5ok7XLy-PW_RsMNq2oHEwuU1JzUnxrNXykgMcseUxLcCH1tmIiVXRhASpnHesp0E/s320/2019-09-21v.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Saint Johns. Isle of Man.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNb2QewkRXdcB1q9i1bb8BNFyRRpnhDQ_GY-wvlug2oOlTxc1Cf-qzKpJNcpi1BuDW7Itkv4cLqZnEj7AGJ1tfnqwxskKKtVjgVfgRpurNeybEr6SL2fB3PUfNq8b5jL2_9NJYv2oxUc6u/s1600/2019-09-21w.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNb2QewkRXdcB1q9i1bb8BNFyRRpnhDQ_GY-wvlug2oOlTxc1Cf-qzKpJNcpi1BuDW7Itkv4cLqZnEj7AGJ1tfnqwxskKKtVjgVfgRpurNeybEr6SL2fB3PUfNq8b5jL2_9NJYv2oxUc6u/s400/2019-09-21w.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ceremonial path leading to Tynwald Mount, Saint Johns. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWeJG7kadTRzjk594eOTz5wgnEw5lAFTj0q1IngAnJ2CWdEKfpf0z46pBkUyufVWdSxXUBhaGCpsVQ-nNmwEnpGEr062OroF01sF0DscIV39WBuSO444jr4FqDYQOSLD7UcjHDJ3zMOrS/s1600/2019-09-21x.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWeJG7kadTRzjk594eOTz5wgnEw5lAFTj0q1IngAnJ2CWdEKfpf0z46pBkUyufVWdSxXUBhaGCpsVQ-nNmwEnpGEr062OroF01sF0DscIV39WBuSO444jr4FqDYQOSLD7UcjHDJ3zMOrS/s320/2019-09-21x.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">At Tynwald Mount, Saint Johns. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2KIOdLX6SPyG8am5DMp3E-7XxNgE0f7iSPzYPv6tyxjroDIN0VFBp99M00rzLmF-sf_gKNsrj5DiO89DCRJwcWnQF-f4XnXS2VXzYYwoMC23xVNmT8cu3e-CNXTfHgL17athSOCLReFUQ/s1600/2019-09-21y.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2KIOdLX6SPyG8am5DMp3E-7XxNgE0f7iSPzYPv6tyxjroDIN0VFBp99M00rzLmF-sf_gKNsrj5DiO89DCRJwcWnQF-f4XnXS2VXzYYwoMC23xVNmT8cu3e-CNXTfHgL17athSOCLReFUQ/s320/2019-09-21y.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ceremonial path between the church and Tynwald Mount. Saint Johns. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> We returned to our campsite to find it heaving with caravanners from all over the island who had come to meet their friends, drink wine outside their vans while the children had open space in which to play safely. Sadly for them it was cold and before long the rain started. The atmosphere though was happy and friendly.</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today we drove again to Peel and walked on the cliffs around the perimeter of the castle before warming up in the coffee shop of the House of Manannan, an exhibition area and tourist information centre.</span></div><center></center><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Mid morning the rain began in earnest so we drove to the outskirts of Douglas where we found some free parking and walked down through the drizzle into the town. Having stopped for a quick lunch we returned for a second visit to the outstanding Manx museum, an excellent choice for a wet Sunday afternoon. There had been fa too much to take in everything on our previous visit earlier in the week.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">In the cafe Ian plunged into the Manx examiner, the island's newspaper, and we discovered something of the Manx economy with its offshore finance, money laundering and hiding of property speculation in London! Is this what we can expect from a post Bexit Britain?</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eventually the rain eased and we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">returned to the campsite to find it completely empty once more. It was the end of our final day on the island. Tomorrow we would have an early start for the ferry.</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> All went well for the ferry crossing early in the morning. The ship was packed and we shared a seat in the lounge with a group of enthusiastic motor cyclists who discussed, without hesitation, repetition or deviation, the intricacies of their vehicles for the entire journey. There can be little of which we remain in ignorance concerning the grease packing of overhead sprocket bearings as a precautionary measure before setting out for a quick scamper around the Isle of Man TT circuit!</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrTkiknqjeyxno12A1toKtI7SvjBEiFBQAobDKgVqMgDJKfsxUcjPxHHxpX26XghIN_r7xzVU0thZlQ1iKpMA7IH0dzi-WqvMW8ysMngjAKsg4Mpoi-0YeWPcgoC-zSdMNGYAkDnUDZnKa/s1600/2019-09-23d.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrTkiknqjeyxno12A1toKtI7SvjBEiFBQAobDKgVqMgDJKfsxUcjPxHHxpX26XghIN_r7xzVU0thZlQ1iKpMA7IH0dzi-WqvMW8ysMngjAKsg4Mpoi-0YeWPcgoC-zSdMNGYAkDnUDZnKa/s320/2019-09-23d.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Douglas. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4oq8zviWx1_Avugtm7XtM1L_fRaYfByWIL1bi8UqtH_02zmg2F6A87wtQLFhRZyDOYTUkC8su9DshPOKG-6zL-l0OwwP_rlTzpK1RnWmSB5QOvG5qUL52GiMlPc_bewQezfnxKubhzl6/s1600/2019-09-23e.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4oq8zviWx1_Avugtm7XtM1L_fRaYfByWIL1bi8UqtH_02zmg2F6A87wtQLFhRZyDOYTUkC8su9DshPOKG-6zL-l0OwwP_rlTzpK1RnWmSB5QOvG5qUL52GiMlPc_bewQezfnxKubhzl6/s320/2019-09-23e.jpg" /></span></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Douglas. Isle of Man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Once ashore at about 13.15 we made our way up the M6 towards Carlisle to the remote and secluded campsite at Cumwhitton - not to be confused with Cumwhinton just a few rambling miles away!</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span>Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-23385835180633935842019-11-12T09:47:00.002-08:002019-11-18T07:58:26.501-08:00Isle of Man integrated transport<span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">Friday 20th September 2019, Isle of Man</span><br />
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At Laxey we transferred to the Snaefell Mountain Railway, built in 7 months in 1895. In original bumpy wooden carriages we started our ascent up the mountainside with superb views of the massive Laxey wheel from above. The wheel had been<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> used for pumping the water from the lead mine. Around us the lower slopes of Snaefell were bright with gorse and wild scrub.</span></div>
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Typically of course, as we were carried up the steep incline a mountain mist enveloped us. Excellent for atmosphere but the ruination of decent photos. <span style="text-align: justify;">After crossing the TT route at Bungalow Halt we pretty much disappeared into the mist. </span></div>
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Laxey. Isle of Man. </div>
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Laxey Mine, Isle of Man. </div>
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From the cafe at the summit we were supposed to be able to see seven kingdoms: Man, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Neptune's kingdom and the Kingdom of heaven. Peering down at our feet we could scarcely even discern the kingdom of Man!</div>
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Snaefell Mountain Railway, Snaefell, Isle of Man.</div>
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Snaefell Mountain Railway, Snaefell, Isle of Man.</div>
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Snaefell Mountain Railway, Snaefell, Isle of Man.</div>
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Jill on Snaefell. Isle of Man. </div>
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Determined not to miss out on the summit of Snaefell we groped our way up the track, soaked by the swirling, clammy mist by the time we found the triangulation point marking the highest point. It was cold and wet with visibility pretty well zero. So we made our way back down where we found our fellow travellers watching a video in the cafe showing what we had been unable to see on the mountain slope above. In need of warming up we remained behind with mugs of hot coffee when the little train set off back down the track to Laxey. </div>
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Snaefell Mountain Railway, Laxey, Isle of Man.</div>
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Manx Electric Railway, Laxey, Isle of Man. </div>
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Manx Electric Railway, Laxey, Isle of Man.</div>
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Manx Electric Railway, Laxey, Isle of Man.</div>
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Manx Electric Railway, Laxey, Isle of Man.</div>
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The descent to the terminus at sea level was delightful, coming down out of the mist to bright sunshine as the track wound down, side by side with the road, passing isolated cottages and hamlets and with a bright blue backdrop of the sea. From here even poor old Douglas looked enticing!</div>
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Douglas. Isle of Man. </div>
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Douglas. Isle of Man. </div>
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Douglas. Isle of Man. </div>
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Then back along the seafront on the bus to the centre of Douglas and a brisk walk along the harbour side to the steam railway for our ride down to Port Erin at the southern tip of the Isle.<br />
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Harbour, Douglas, Isle of Man.</div>
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Harbour, Douglas, Isle of Man. </div>
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Douglas. Isle of Man Steam Railway.</div>
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This little train carried us on the single track railway at a slow, bumping, rocking pace along the coast, through Ballasalla and Castletown to Port Erin with its sandy beach, framed to the south by its harbour and to north by Braddon Head, topped by Milner's Tower.</div>
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Here we brought a couple of sandwiches and sat in the sunshine on the warm sunny beach with our toes buried in the sand. This was the best and most picturesque part of the island for us. It was too late in the day to consider walking out to Milner's Tower and there was still a cream tea to be taken in the tea-shop! Weary but delighted with our day we reboarded the train for the return trundle back to Douglas and the bus back to the campsite where Modestine had spent the day communing with the campsite's resident cat. If it had a tail or not we never noticed.</div>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-7048593171320093712019-11-07T09:48:00.000-08:002019-11-07T09:48:05.209-08:00Isle of Man - Douglas<b>Thursday 19th September 2019, Isle of Man</b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Today was dedicated to Douglas. It proved to be a rather frustrating day. There were three things that had to be done. The first was to top up with money which we achieved at the Manx Bank in Douglas which replenished our supply of island banknotes. The second was to find a library where Ian could catch up with emails following the demise of his laptop - also achieved through a very friendly librarian in the central public library who found a free terminal for him. The third was to obtain a Go Explore card for one day which would allow travel not only on the buses but on the five heritage railways - electric, steam and horsedrawn. The ticketing section of the Isle of Man, Bus Vannin journey planner booklet implied that these cards were only on sale at a limited number of outlets but when we finally located one of them at the ferry port they told us that paper tickets could be purchased from the bus driver anyway. This unnecessary mooching around rather dampened our enthusiasm for Douglas which, although by far the largest town in the island, has relatively little to offer in the way of charm. This can in part be explained by the fact that until the late 19th century it was little more than a fishing port, playing second fiddle to the historic centres in Castletown, Peel and Ramsay.</div><br />
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Douglas. Isle of Man.</center><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">It was the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria which seemed to give the stimulus to development, 1887 being the date on the elaborate cast-iron clock and the date that the promenade was inaugurated. The long promenade with its lofty late Victorian hotels, marred by an intrusive modern church, was being dug up, but we were delighted by the carefully restored Gaiety Theatre and opera House, a product of the renowned theatre architect Frank Matcham and the Villa Marina, once an opulent private residence but now a lavish entertainment centre, complete with gilt chairs and a stage that has been graced by a range of celebs whose portraits lined the carpeted corridors. The government offices with the three meeting rooms of the Tynwald legislature, claimed as the oldest parliament in the world, are also in Douglas although, in true Viking style, the annual Tynwald assembly when all the laws enacted that year are read out in English and Manx is held in an open field between Douglas and Peel.</div><br />
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Douglas. Isle of Man.</center><br />
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Douglas. Isle of Man. </center><br />
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Douglas. Isle of Man</center><br />
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Douglas. Isle of Man</center><br />
<center><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a lengthy pedestrianised main shopping street where we were able to ascertain where the island's branches of all the mainland chainstores were located. The wonderful Manx Museum - the only really unmissable site in Douglas - is approached rather inauspiciously by means of a lift to the 8th deck of a multi-story car park, through the assembled parked cars and then across a footbridge suspended over a gaping canyon. The late Victorian building with its neo-Viking style decorative plaques was worth the struggle, telling the whole story of the islands from the first settlers about 10,000 years ago through the Bronze Age, the Celts, the Vikings who ruled the kingdom of Mann and the Isles until 1256, the feudal lords of the later middle ages, the upheaval of the Civil Wars, the transfer to the English crown in 1756, the decline of the Manx language, poverty, emigration, mining, the arrival of tourism in the late 19th century, the TT motorcycle races and the post-war rise of the international offshore financial enterprises. This fast forward through Manx history shows that the islanders can say with impunity "What have the Romans ever done for us?" because they never got that far. The building also houses the national library and archives, although we did not have time to visit these.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OzpBvQPg-nvotIvRsIuapNof95o2U0etEY9zQwXx2yKfRUXEcHLD6duPUxMbWCh9X15sLj3WwtusaYpg8ryv0P6vncQvILJ6nGm6WYolHKkmwXoE8fnVCiZ7DduU5EovLdekxoOi_1GO/s1600/2019-09-19b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OzpBvQPg-nvotIvRsIuapNof95o2U0etEY9zQwXx2yKfRUXEcHLD6duPUxMbWCh9X15sLj3WwtusaYpg8ryv0P6vncQvILJ6nGm6WYolHKkmwXoE8fnVCiZ7DduU5EovLdekxoOi_1GO/s320/2019-09-19b.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Museum, Douglas. Isle of Man. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We discovered the older, more characterful area of the North Quay, along the banks of the River Dhoo when we were flagging towards the end of the day and could not summon up the energy to cross the swing bridge to see the camera obscura at the end of the South Quay. </div><br />
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One amusing incident at the start of the day; the campsite's bins were being emptied by a contractor whose lorry bore the strap-line "Our business is rubbish - but it's picking up". It made us laugh anyway. </div>Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-31219178991452946462019-11-07T08:10:00.000-08:002019-11-07T08:10:03.345-08:00Isle of Man - North<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wednesday 18th September 2019, Isle of Man</b><br />
Tonight we find ourselves back on the same site alone in the total darkness with just an invisible creature for company outside, noisily licking out our empty tin of beans. <br />
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</div><div>We have spent the day exploring the west and north coasts of the island, First making our way to Peel where we left Modestine in the curiously named Boilly Spittal. Then down to the harbour of what is the main fishing port of the island. We walked along toward the quayside to St Patrick's Isle, topped by the ruins of St German's Cathedral and the impressive Castle. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIFA7W1jK_6BP8oPhUxJjzHPM86wJvzeauk-o3dAcBJ2Kzj8QM8vntbO90srAAhP-gxqmzRecLIymdmpKIEx9ErfnahB0fbZ2lbZmJeTG4UOzaGmhNo-mabRsDuNjjLTqJKonIvOH5U9X/s1600/2019-09-18b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIFA7W1jK_6BP8oPhUxJjzHPM86wJvzeauk-o3dAcBJ2Kzj8QM8vntbO90srAAhP-gxqmzRecLIymdmpKIEx9ErfnahB0fbZ2lbZmJeTG4UOzaGmhNo-mabRsDuNjjLTqJKonIvOH5U9X/s320/2019-09-18b.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Harbour, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEild6KPZqvrdWcP3jswsd3ZLCFSCLLterWcb0noMRyNYlts9ubnOeFnPSNpT6QmNR6sRvO_dXhM8camZACNrsl74_Y320hWCoAAtGPl50DMW_I8dANaQ_K1E2aUDeB1CkMPpGimCrmotCH5/s1600/2019-09-18c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEild6KPZqvrdWcP3jswsd3ZLCFSCLLterWcb0noMRyNYlts9ubnOeFnPSNpT6QmNR6sRvO_dXhM8camZACNrsl74_Y320hWCoAAtGPl50DMW_I8dANaQ_K1E2aUDeB1CkMPpGimCrmotCH5/s320/2019-09-18c.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Harbour, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bhfAZD6ou0ALzqac2d4I2SoUoDnlEnr6omT20ycnHqHFe1DeZXsxB1i85GUJrXRdLNF4ZUBaHjXIjgK7pF6lo9OOv8OHcqruJv4TV6f692kRwzirTB3TDZbVUsHBVLtyADRoRGpMWTsT/s1600/2019-09-18d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bhfAZD6ou0ALzqac2d4I2SoUoDnlEnr6omT20ycnHqHFe1DeZXsxB1i85GUJrXRdLNF4ZUBaHjXIjgK7pF6lo9OOv8OHcqruJv4TV6f692kRwzirTB3TDZbVUsHBVLtyADRoRGpMWTsT/s320/2019-09-18d.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Harbour, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRspeDgJaj9Ygeh6KCMRYxSe-BK19L-zkB0WcNT7aiDf53udNui7J6L6rRs12n2RtRwUBnNwDGMRw0JZ09lzAD9XpcCUGuzJ80gVt8X47-TyegmrtvpSJTppD3S0OvSN3AYU5tkrSUnLU4/s1600/2019-09-18e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRspeDgJaj9Ygeh6KCMRYxSe-BK19L-zkB0WcNT7aiDf53udNui7J6L6rRs12n2RtRwUBnNwDGMRw0JZ09lzAD9XpcCUGuzJ80gVt8X47-TyegmrtvpSJTppD3S0OvSN3AYU5tkrSUnLU4/s320/2019-09-18e.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVAxaUFeYICogobvR11-Ka0vEq8mNhQcwOagyEY22r151Tg8wVRRSUEgKYgW0Cnjh-ytEo9Hyr3nKjLD86xQ1-RA_Hu0wCTLdDlEGD7npkpNNLQTwLjAiBpUkZVY2d1tu2GTLOso29ULT/s1600/2019-09-18f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVAxaUFeYICogobvR11-Ka0vEq8mNhQcwOagyEY22r151Tg8wVRRSUEgKYgW0Cnjh-ytEo9Hyr3nKjLD86xQ1-RA_Hu0wCTLdDlEGD7npkpNNLQTwLjAiBpUkZVY2d1tu2GTLOso29ULT/s320/2019-09-18f.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Fish ladder, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8szKzDdfQh-V5R1ksVYm-4HHPLdh3Z3uC08cjcG3Beu-yh__Oio5uxNMEp5kS24idEXCCUKdrFxqXNNlTvWn9Rqi0bzxGdkslw4VmihgjG9zgzDS4d55nFwIL_T_aujZlsDSDKj_9tIA4/s1600/2019-09-18g.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8szKzDdfQh-V5R1ksVYm-4HHPLdh3Z3uC08cjcG3Beu-yh__Oio5uxNMEp5kS24idEXCCUKdrFxqXNNlTvWn9Rqi0bzxGdkslw4VmihgjG9zgzDS4d55nFwIL_T_aujZlsDSDKj_9tIA4/s320/2019-09-18g.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Poster at the harbour, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5Dgfd5hQlxM9BZ2ytxUKZnVYSyBa0HHZVUvnuw8DkNEGb1NdvA-QzlmpbpHdXaNTL6zyJQSD0tOxEpsUf333TUMCziQ6pXf4A3MoKs6U_BgchuANBkh2nNYvBRv5HX-zszg5P0SvZjuj/s1600/2019-09-18h.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5Dgfd5hQlxM9BZ2ytxUKZnVYSyBa0HHZVUvnuw8DkNEGb1NdvA-QzlmpbpHdXaNTL6zyJQSD0tOxEpsUf333TUMCziQ6pXf4A3MoKs6U_BgchuANBkh2nNYvBRv5HX-zszg5P0SvZjuj/s320/2019-09-18h.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYSpBEcjetEpmaz-wl8qf2QeZT9ZYY1ZX0wpufqaINIxCP6dPZOKXp6Fad4VtTP-KT8JMkpjHfztKtHaiyfMf1dFOMpE695RXZ0I0o1oeKlpYK4-v2piwI76I4W6dFY-C8LQ60g9NYoYm/s1600/2019-09-18i.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYSpBEcjetEpmaz-wl8qf2QeZT9ZYY1ZX0wpufqaINIxCP6dPZOKXp6Fad4VtTP-KT8JMkpjHfztKtHaiyfMf1dFOMpE695RXZ0I0o1oeKlpYK4-v2piwI76I4W6dFY-C8LQ60g9NYoYm/s320/2019-09-18i.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle ruins, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaZeZsCN5p1RZoQ9UNhr0258LXiyDIm5a7jz_koXSLs73uDIY94uAUTz8Rtg92Wbwz6eU0-2XXhwkiVBtM-pvfj31sJPUV1Hm3ridQR97__3anc_P3cx0a0NXkYcP8vw59-7GJn_nyErP/s1600/2019-09-18j.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaZeZsCN5p1RZoQ9UNhr0258LXiyDIm5a7jz_koXSLs73uDIY94uAUTz8Rtg92Wbwz6eU0-2XXhwkiVBtM-pvfj31sJPUV1Hm3ridQR97__3anc_P3cx0a0NXkYcP8vw59-7GJn_nyErP/s320/2019-09-18j.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle looking back to Peel. Isle of Man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwqNsRSdAKsime204aXaR5D6mq49NY2KNQXumH_EBb14sFzChVilFPJKGHgW0hp3q5kWClgANa5zNIi00lJcxV3dG6-XkAySFIaGnCI4KFmBUKSMbWUQxdYbU2o9PtWlbSmW8oweqvYQQ/s1600/2019-09-18l.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwqNsRSdAKsime204aXaR5D6mq49NY2KNQXumH_EBb14sFzChVilFPJKGHgW0hp3q5kWClgANa5zNIi00lJcxV3dG6-XkAySFIaGnCI4KFmBUKSMbWUQxdYbU2o9PtWlbSmW8oweqvYQQ/s320/2019-09-18l.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAVg6obLxOy77LB2E_GaXxNBNFMSQZwqJENuiZifWme4uSof_o9PsvNlq7rYWX9UKQRJIgFtSAeUDC_cuWkmLRT7lVWoc5Arty8bL4kTxElkf_TCdgSticDxEp8UihgtClteS2oHsypq0/s1600/2019-09-18m.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAVg6obLxOy77LB2E_GaXxNBNFMSQZwqJENuiZifWme4uSof_o9PsvNlq7rYWX9UKQRJIgFtSAeUDC_cuWkmLRT7lVWoc5Arty8bL4kTxElkf_TCdgSticDxEp8UihgtClteS2oHsypq0/s320/2019-09-18m.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle walls, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUjARYdO1x3eDM6HlgXl4meZkISMamPqRg8vj3AAyMO3Zr89vgq9jOOVr_Y-yc6CYHLx04TZbX3MTcf_Xwam4IjO9vzAiCARmvRG0YYWCPcKJuLt1PM7T89wdsEYE5fdYPAAgWKvhOkem/s1600/2019-09-18n.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUjARYdO1x3eDM6HlgXl4meZkISMamPqRg8vj3AAyMO3Zr89vgq9jOOVr_Y-yc6CYHLx04TZbX3MTcf_Xwam4IjO9vzAiCARmvRG0YYWCPcKJuLt1PM7T89wdsEYE5fdYPAAgWKvhOkem/s400/2019-09-18n.jpg" width="300" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Sea front, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UbVSga7-IcjLS4zgHVpK9B-0D6oPwqnL9KYbmLdSOWAbsUZ1rK6x34PEYEbioqp_R_rkiirnlawWEpOJQFhjIV_Yj8OuYkb-WA1WXSjtq1MJoYdAbBI18Sr2hclsHEEl56SQvxKm2zJd/s1600/2019-09-18p.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UbVSga7-IcjLS4zgHVpK9B-0D6oPwqnL9KYbmLdSOWAbsUZ1rK6x34PEYEbioqp_R_rkiirnlawWEpOJQFhjIV_Yj8OuYkb-WA1WXSjtq1MJoYdAbBI18Sr2hclsHEEl56SQvxKm2zJd/s320/2019-09-18p.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Justice, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85ilmW77Esxp-Z7-anuUFZGGSzNnKYjhAgM_uZC6-TIzyf6uoIn55WYnKffXBdjDGKGlpeK7QLC8C-wQZy9RLoMfd_UmQDNvoJkfN4UtbZNc6qw90bUU31y2nq8q6oHMGDQMJdac9d2Vt/s1600/2019-09-22a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85ilmW77Esxp-Z7-anuUFZGGSzNnKYjhAgM_uZC6-TIzyf6uoIn55WYnKffXBdjDGKGlpeK7QLC8C-wQZy9RLoMfd_UmQDNvoJkfN4UtbZNc6qw90bUU31y2nq8q6oHMGDQMJdac9d2Vt/s320/2019-09-22a.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Beach, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEFhpxh3VBkoDxFA80aG5Ingvt6KAMzVQ65t8WIdhZSAfkWhZC58iwLX3UepeScWytToVakZ_BcMgJnTrL6qcJxPPya-Dh4Ba0-Gy5vr9FXzXjDjxVtzkAo6Y9UCu6SjwY79IB7iY5NF3g/s1600/2019-09-22b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEFhpxh3VBkoDxFA80aG5Ingvt6KAMzVQ65t8WIdhZSAfkWhZC58iwLX3UepeScWytToVakZ_BcMgJnTrL6qcJxPPya-Dh4Ba0-Gy5vr9FXzXjDjxVtzkAo6Y9UCu6SjwY79IB7iY5NF3g/s320/2019-09-22b.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle walls, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9sMyTU73VWyY0-F5UecrCop4ZO4tKwgNnRO12BDe2HPxRIGyoY-VVn9V4nelauyQhW7d1hpkXm7H3mPi51kwrVZRhJRE6_qMfe6jAcI7SVRmz4g1_pXhlwrK44EedJV8sS5innFRp3Ub/s1600/2019-09-22c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9sMyTU73VWyY0-F5UecrCop4ZO4tKwgNnRO12BDe2HPxRIGyoY-VVn9V4nelauyQhW7d1hpkXm7H3mPi51kwrVZRhJRE6_qMfe6jAcI7SVRmz4g1_pXhlwrK44EedJV8sS5innFRp3Ub/s320/2019-09-22c.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Castle walls, Peel. Isle of Man. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeS8hFH7dJ46yxsqymVrfgF2jqsfN1Zh2z9FZQqWr-wZ3VnEj1AaC25V3eMVee4WDqHgiXqruVSL_07x2Yu5Wkz3FgA-mL6hpMweHhhxIAyWf4m8gN2A1OYOAvFAbwTS4sq8Z52EvsCHg-/s1600/2019-09-22d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeS8hFH7dJ46yxsqymVrfgF2jqsfN1Zh2z9FZQqWr-wZ3VnEj1AaC25V3eMVee4WDqHgiXqruVSL_07x2Yu5Wkz3FgA-mL6hpMweHhhxIAyWf4m8gN2A1OYOAvFAbwTS4sq8Z52EvsCHg-/s320/2019-09-22d.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Memorial, Peel. Isle of Man.<br />
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</div><center></center><div>We climbed Peel Hill to the west of the town for wonderful views over the castle and across the harbour to the bay to the north, fronted by hotels and with the tower of the modern St German's Cathedral inland. We explored the steep narrow streets of the centre of the town lined with independent shops, some dating from the early 20th century when Peel was the haunt of artists and other visitors. The triskel of the three-legged man was everywhere and so it came as no surprise to us to discover that in the shoe shops footwear is sold in threes rather than pairs!! </div><div><br />
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</div><div>Needing to use the cash machine outside the IOM bank we discovered their banknote are all overprinted with the three legged triskel! Even the £1 coins are different from those in mainland Britain and they are still circular. One lady we met told us that the islanders couldn't care less what happened in the EU with regard to money. They just got on and lead their own lives here, ignoring Brussels just as they had always done. They have apparently never been in the European Union and consider themselves to be an offshore island much as they do in the Channel Islands.</div><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrH6SapLOWVmyZiQPBhc4HQLNwvQ6v950Kgz8WgS10_QPOaYKPURXItPbf4G58qUEsTC2I3UjRenKRMgJXDiVzOA48oKfauAKDDMY0fTPfcL3toP4n9JTqQ8GQDEhvbWBabrt90rUvD8R/s1600/2019-09-18o.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrH6SapLOWVmyZiQPBhc4HQLNwvQ6v950Kgz8WgS10_QPOaYKPURXItPbf4G58qUEsTC2I3UjRenKRMgJXDiVzOA48oKfauAKDDMY0fTPfcL3toP4n9JTqQ8GQDEhvbWBabrt90rUvD8R/s320/2019-09-18o.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Peel. Isle of Man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhamRqmJ3EsVO7wyVFHMhYHK52VjjXYp9mfiMizBamjfAFtzTyFnk73p_mi5K8k5ROaHLplqu_ykX2DW5kmaf8B0_GH1IERD_B2ywaaTjZWwTUuJe7W0SpCRCEJQyWqgwMKssNMqk2Hyu4y/s1600/2019-09-18oa.jpg"><img height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhamRqmJ3EsVO7wyVFHMhYHK52VjjXYp9mfiMizBamjfAFtzTyFnk73p_mi5K8k5ROaHLplqu_ykX2DW5kmaf8B0_GH1IERD_B2ywaaTjZWwTUuJe7W0SpCRCEJQyWqgwMKssNMqk2Hyu4y/s320/2019-09-18oa.jpg" width="320" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmbtpE8qTpmq7eL4HQ9Fa2sqxl5719CaiRu07770jWC4DmI-dQmEVKCuMqpeg_89wyyoH8tNJrkEE4u8m6WKXysIINInyIaSQCPcg5sugq1Mgmj-3TVO0F8VNEn1kv1BcwhA2tgSb8sBJ/s1600/2019-09-20z.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmbtpE8qTpmq7eL4HQ9Fa2sqxl5719CaiRu07770jWC4DmI-dQmEVKCuMqpeg_89wyyoH8tNJrkEE4u8m6WKXysIINInyIaSQCPcg5sugq1Mgmj-3TVO0F8VNEn1kv1BcwhA2tgSb8sBJ/s320/2019-09-20z.jpg" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Manx banknotes and coins</div><br />
We continued northwards on a near deserted road running alongside the west coast, with wonderful views across golden fields dotted with hay bales. Through wooded glens, at one of which we stopped to explore, finding the sandy cliffs to be eroding rapidly. Large boulders had been brought in to help hold back the power of sea storms. This far-north area is the most deserted part of the island and we saw almost nobody. Seeing a direction sign for the Isle of Man prison Jill recalled having read somewhere recently that it had been voted by its resident guests to be the best small prison in Britain. </div><div><br />
</div><div>According to the article the problem is more a case of getting the inmates to leave rather than locking them up. Outside is a bus stop which, assuming the article was genuine, collects the prisoners each morning and takes them to their workplaces in the Island's towns and returns them to the prison at the end of their shifts. Seeing a sign for visitor parking we stopped with the intention of asking if we could see this amazing jail. At visitor reception we found nobody at all and search as we might could find no way into the prison. We were reluctantly obliged to relinquish our quest, shut out from prison as we were. We must try to refind the article, if sounded amazing - more like a reward than a punishment! </div><div><br />
</div><div>Our next stop was at Bride where we found some Norse carved crosses inside the 19th century church. They dated from the 8th to 10th century. They were awesomly inscribed with knotwork, mystic creatures and one even had runic script along its outer edge.</div><div><br />
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.</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9zB4AuYnZXb6HAF_wirztCC1Tn3G9qQh_7qiYslCVywnNCCdMw6sDhyphenhyphenpSjBaZJB3dm096cs7lK0dhFrHnG_top1skOlORY0flpJ9V_1nHP8d5z68JPCvw3R0SrQKUDiXijXUPBqC807x/s1600/2019-09-18ra.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9zB4AuYnZXb6HAF_wirztCC1Tn3G9qQh_7qiYslCVywnNCCdMw6sDhyphenhyphenpSjBaZJB3dm096cs7lK0dhFrHnG_top1skOlORY0flpJ9V_1nHP8d5z68JPCvw3R0SrQKUDiXijXUPBqC807x/s400/2019-09-18ra.jpg" width="193" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Bride. Isle of Man.<br />
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</div><div>We stopped in the village teashop for afternoon coffee and found it to be crowded with grey-haired elderly holiday makers, rather like us. One even accused us jokingly of following him around as he'd seem us at several other points around the area.</div><div><br />
</div><div>We continued along the narrow roads to the northernmost tip of the island, the Point of Ayre. Here there are a couple of low lighthouses, one actually on the pebbled beach. The low cliffs are a riot of yellow gorse with areas of purple heather bursting through. </div><br />
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</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxeQa3OZ-mqoqe6affLki66j9A3huZ4kGjqZPyKdyZMELOem4y5PK7sgakQ-aV6v9sCFPddoiXTGcU2xPrIYu-3c6zoY7w967eX0-QGMFEYth4-YoGAUnv7rOn5n7IdfCSpmw440M2PTT/s1600/2019-09-18u.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxeQa3OZ-mqoqe6affLki66j9A3huZ4kGjqZPyKdyZMELOem4y5PK7sgakQ-aV6v9sCFPddoiXTGcU2xPrIYu-3c6zoY7w967eX0-QGMFEYth4-YoGAUnv7rOn5n7IdfCSpmw440M2PTT/s320/2019-09-18u.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Point of Ayre. Isle of Man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wkD2x1g-BLXi5rtTztDwcbowdsyawRHkiwv4i6cZ61SrCqJp3O7Don9kwLhAb57U6R7IB21yEszVHTQBpm-6DoPH0GueC5-6DgEnizug0lrehUdleYM5RzZytKMAgaPne-_f0g9nf2cG/s1600/2019-09-18w.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wkD2x1g-BLXi5rtTztDwcbowdsyawRHkiwv4i6cZ61SrCqJp3O7Don9kwLhAb57U6R7IB21yEszVHTQBpm-6DoPH0GueC5-6DgEnizug0lrehUdleYM5RzZytKMAgaPne-_f0g9nf2cG/s320/2019-09-18w.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Point of Ayre. Isle of Man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><center></center><div>Reluctantly we moved on, leaving nature's splendour behind and heading for the late Victorian resort of Ramsey with its promenade, opened in the late 1890s, and its seaside guest houses, some still quite ornate, others sadly decayed.</div><br />
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</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Rv2ebXLtwqRQjn7IpWvcxJyl_crmRhUJTOUpJfrNKZfkzF1IvdCEVzb6OD0rQHefyBB56XNpXv1IY5SdupYj3GZFRfbJ4PEdgD6iEIoDKuIefkRGmC8WJGDB1LzHtuZ970WLLfZZW3sI/s1600/2019-09-18zd.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Rv2ebXLtwqRQjn7IpWvcxJyl_crmRhUJTOUpJfrNKZfkzF1IvdCEVzb6OD0rQHefyBB56XNpXv1IY5SdupYj3GZFRfbJ4PEdgD6iEIoDKuIefkRGmC8WJGDB1LzHtuZ970WLLfZZW3sI/s320/2019-09-18zd.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Ramsey. Isle of Man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJ69T3em9OZnb0DfEiXMR1BXOZpN3DSqPHS_k0tn6cd9OBMHOLAJLtleTkYf0fvswwJNXa73L474aJfWNkt3aQZboezRA0MFJYbmu-qEJGjb5tdFPK7FSx7DH7nxmLIqXDKHZkTcrhwnj/s1600/2019-09-18ze.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJ69T3em9OZnb0DfEiXMR1BXOZpN3DSqPHS_k0tn6cd9OBMHOLAJLtleTkYf0fvswwJNXa73L474aJfWNkt3aQZboezRA0MFJYbmu-qEJGjb5tdFPK7FSx7DH7nxmLIqXDKHZkTcrhwnj/s400/2019-09-18ze.jpg" width="400" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Ramsey. Isle of Man.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div>In need of food for supper we scoured the town for shops. All we found were a very few tiny stores with limited choices where we were hard put to find anything suitable to cook in Modestine. Is this a forewarning of what we can expect post Brexit?</div><div><br />
</div><div>It was time to seriously seek out somewhere for the night. In the end we decided we could do worse than return to the site we used last night. The lady in the office had been very pleasant and helpful this morning and it is convenient for a bus into Douglas tomorrow morning.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Heading back along the coast road we turned off to seek out the Laxey big wheel, originally used as an undershot waterwheel to keep the lead mine there pumped free from water. It has a diameter of 72ft and is the biggest water wheel in the world! By the time we reached it everyone had gone home for the evening so we could only see it from the site perimeter. A couple of lasses climbed over the barrier and set off to climb the steps to the top of the wheel. We were sorely tempted to follow them and in younger days would have done so. A certain sense of responsibility is one of the afflictions of advancing years and we decided to act our age rather than end up discovering for ourselves exactly what it was gave the IOM prison its special reputation! </div><div><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWIZfpdWcO90AkSgOJhWPY0KkfdDiXaem4-2PH1ehtS2LjNzv7OFEm3KUrltc4tUx_uKhSgg4Z6MaxY8gBYsq4k6GieAFhjPj9QXe7nhOAeV22llOrVAoi8iRpxjks2JiGuHyRQmrDKu6T/s1600/2019-09-18zf.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWIZfpdWcO90AkSgOJhWPY0KkfdDiXaem4-2PH1ehtS2LjNzv7OFEm3KUrltc4tUx_uKhSgg4Z6MaxY8gBYsq4k6GieAFhjPj9QXe7nhOAeV22llOrVAoi8iRpxjks2JiGuHyRQmrDKu6T/s400/2019-09-18zf.jpg" width="301" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Waterwheels. Laxey. Isle of Man.<br />
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</div><div>It was rush-hour back in Douglas but Ian navigated us through its countless roundabouts and awkward junctions to arrive safely back here where everywhere is deserted. We will retrospectively ask if we can stay tonight when the owner arrives in the morning. Outside there is still the sound of a creature snuffling its head into an empty food can. Time to find the torch and take the dirty dishes and the can across to the campsite kitchen while Ian sorts out our bed for the night. An extra blanket will be essential as evenings are really very chilly - as we discovered yesterday. </div></div>Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-55697565790668684762019-11-06T08:55:00.000-08:002019-11-06T10:04:46.467-08:00Crossing to the Isle of Man<div style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: justify;">
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With all the anxiety concerning Brexit and whether or not we will remain in the EU, whether there will be a new referendum or perhaps an election, we have decided not to go to Europe this autumn. Everything is so uncertain and we are so angry with the farcical way we are being railroaded out of Europe by our incompetent Conservative government (known in Europe as Clowning Street) that we have decided not to risk being somewhere in Europe and finding an election or second referendum has been called and we will not be able to get home in time to vote. <br />
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<b>Monday 16th September 2019, Heysham</b></div>
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We drove up from Exeter yesterday and camped near Knutsford on a very pleasant site where we were the only touring visitors. Everyone else lived in static caravans with doric columns and/or baroque curlicues. Overhead ducks entertained us all evening and again from dawn with their cheerful conversational squarking as they flew off for the winter, joining up with similar flights as they disappeared from view beyond the trees. Cheshire struck us as delightful with its red stone churches, red brick houses and cottages glowing beneath an autumn sunshine.</div>
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This morning we rang Alan whom we have not seen since his friend, and our neighbour, Hilary, died two years ago. It is also some thirty years since we were up in this area of England but we simply carried on where we'd left off. Parking Modestine we drove off into Warrington with Alan for a coffee and news catch-up.<br />
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Then we drove to Heysham from where the ferry leaves for the Isle of Man. There seems nothing else of merit here where we are camping as we wait for tomorrow's ferry. It cost us almost £500 return for a journey lasting 3 hours each way! We could have crossed the Channel, driven to Southern Spain, crossed to Morocco and probably returned as well for what the ferry is costing us!! But if we don't do it now, we never will!<br />
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There are only two ferries a day and as I avoid night driving with my bad eye we will not be crossing until tomorrow afternoon. Next we experienced the delights of Morecombe! Arriving in the town in bright sunshine we parked near the seafront and made our way against a strong headwind along the front in search of somewhere for a coffee. It was not long before we realised coffee was something that had not yet found a niche in the town! An Aldi supermarket was the most exciting thing we saw. It was the first and almost certainly the last time we will visit the town. Its such a pity as out across the huge bay were the blue hills and peaks of the North West and they looked most inviting. The town has nothing of charm to offer that we could find and it struck us as a depressing place to live. No wonder so many people in such areas of the north voted in support of Brexit! As Alan said earlier, if it doesn't affect the South East it's simply ignored by Central Government. Maybe if we lived in run-down Morecombe we'd end up supporting the Brexit vote!! But why do they blame Europe rather than Westminster?<br />
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With so little to see or do we walked briskly along the sea front and returned to Modestine feeling angry for the people of Morecombe, let down by the government, with nothing to do and nowhere to go, side streets full of second-hand shops, pawnbrokers and broken pavements. So we have returned to Heysham and found a campsite near the ferry, ready for tomorrow. The sun is shining, we have a bottle of wine and a couple of interesting books to browse so we are content enough amongst this nomadic camp of retirees who have chosen to live in a field, their prefabricated plastic homes propped up on bricks while they sit outside, cat on knee, looking out in the direction of the Isle of Man as the sun slowly sets.<br />
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<b>Tuesday 17th September 2019, Isle of Man</b></div>
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Last night Ian dropped his computer and the screen is irreparably broken. Hopefully the information is not lost but he will have lost contact with the wider world until we return home. Last night was not agreeable; we were the only tourers on a residential site, far from the facilities and it seems expensive for what we have. But it was convenient for our ferry departure in the afternoon.<br />
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This morning we decided to see whether Heysham was anything more than a departure port for the Isle of Man. We sought out the village centre and found it to be charming - everything Morecombe was not. The pretty cottages lined the steep narrow streets, their gardens bursting with bright autumn flowers. The greatest delight was the wonderful little church dating back in part to Saxon times perched on a rocky eminence overlook the vast muddy expanse of Morecombe Bay. Inside were carved Saxon monuments dating from the 9th century and showing a clear Viking influence with its carvings of humans and animals. Higher still, behind the churchyard was the even older ruined chapel of St. Patrick surrounded by graves hewn into the rock. Legend has it that St. Patrick landed just here, driven ashore by a storm when returning from Ireland.<br />
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Heysham. Lancashire.<br />
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Heysham. Lancashire.<br />
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Heysham. Lancashire.<br />
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Heysham. Lancashire.<br />
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Heysham. Lancashire.<br />
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Heysham. Lancashire.<br />
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Passing through a pretty community garden where we exchanged pleasantries with a couple of volunteer workers we discovered their community cafe where we were offered coffee and biscuits. </div>
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Time to return to the port and check in for our IOM ferry. We watched fascinated as huge containers were loaded by remorques that shunted massive containers up onto the top level of the ship. Everything needed on the island passing through this port has to be shipped over on the three hour ferry crossing along with the tourists. M & S, Parcel Force, Tesco, everything has to be containerised and transported across, and the ferry company has a monopoly here. Hence, I suppose, a rational explanation as to why our ticket was so expensive. We were advised that Wednesday evenings are not a good time to cross unless we'd book well in advance. Apparently Wednesday is medicines day and the ship is groaning under the weight of everything from cough mixture to catheters.<br />
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Blackpool tower seen from the ferry.</div>
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The crossing was smooth and comfortable though much more low key than those crossing to Europe. Here passengers are carried as an addition to the work of the Island's link with the outside world. We passed a couple of oil platforms and a huge offshore wind farm along the way, We mused as to whether the Isle of Man, as a crown colony, separate from the UK, could serve as a stepping stone between Ireland and Britain to avoid, or overcome, the problems posed by the Irish Backstop. The Isle of FFMan ferry company already serves Dublin, Belfast and Liverpool as well as Heysham! But why should we solve the problems of our PM as he navigates his Ship of Fools through the choppy waters of Brexit?<br />
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We landed around 6pm and within minutes found ourselves driving through the streets of Douglas towards the site where we are now camped. There was nobody on duty so we have made ourselves comfortable on this island farm and will presumably meet our hosts in the morning.</div>
Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-26715468176798078232019-10-29T04:18:00.001-07:002019-10-29T05:40:46.464-07:00 Brittany, friends and home<center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Friday 31 May 2019</b></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">We headed north to Brittany, arriving there as we crossed the impressive bridge over the Loire at Saint-Nazaire.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dEhoxxZJ-jQ094aTSUEIbZyArSxCmYUi2dHJg-2Ca5-8dR2Vk6xhAXa07I6I7INjPnpxI1C6xtG6jSvg4rZlRpVhH3MmxWt_DIwYrWhnbKWq4KcbfRye02YBDBcGo9vwdjc6hEriOsoV/s1600/2019-05-31a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dEhoxxZJ-jQ094aTSUEIbZyArSxCmYUi2dHJg-2Ca5-8dR2Vk6xhAXa07I6I7INjPnpxI1C6xtG6jSvg4rZlRpVhH3MmxWt_DIwYrWhnbKWq4KcbfRye02YBDBcGo9vwdjc6hEriOsoV/s320/2019-05-31a.jpg" /></a></center>Bridge. Saint-Nazaire. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">Our first stop in Brittany was the chic resort of La Baule - six miles of beaches fronted by modern hotels. The expanse of fine sand was lined with beach restaurants. Some older hotels survive, especially at west end for example The Hotel Royal.The occasional fin de siècle house remained, sandwiched between blocks of hotels. Behind the seafront there were pleasant streets of older houses set among trees and parades of elegant shops - no kiss-me-quick hats, but high fashion and jewellery. The beach. was the resort of Beautiful People slim and fit and playing volley-ball.</center></center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBvDXlC6SKErMMXNJ0TmFaxrw2piuCaUOvOznngZibywcuY5QSeFP6l9pmqEUC8a-IK9cg3a7mkNGpQCya-YXE4hwRA8kmodwMyDol3Elrad7NynBQylkOBU5a1GgzZDhJWsSMBB5oMaQ/s1600/2019-05-31d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBvDXlC6SKErMMXNJ0TmFaxrw2piuCaUOvOznngZibywcuY5QSeFP6l9pmqEUC8a-IK9cg3a7mkNGpQCya-YXE4hwRA8kmodwMyDol3Elrad7NynBQylkOBU5a1GgzZDhJWsSMBB5oMaQ/s320/2019-05-31d.jpg" /></a></center>Hotels, La Baule</center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV75_seEEWZvZDWu7aGT7o6uR6iGHAKNfaogo1G0svITyc7hLN3k0GpGnajM4aSZOjrFU2e5QycUM_Eq9UiAQp7qX6tQpmXbAPaNYp10nSZzlIVgXyTeJm3crVR6Mu8HJeu0IEodEVFsug/s1600/2019-05-31f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV75_seEEWZvZDWu7aGT7o6uR6iGHAKNfaogo1G0svITyc7hLN3k0GpGnajM4aSZOjrFU2e5QycUM_Eq9UiAQp7qX6tQpmXbAPaNYp10nSZzlIVgXyTeJm3crVR6Mu8HJeu0IEodEVFsug/s320/2019-05-31f.jpg" /></a></center>Hotel Royal, La Baule</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUaLUcIJrvWbmBM0hfYBEAU5NI5CWmCSqLrWLy5a3IsLMp4etWhX_yxPjSwPxJ9CWyFhIai4Vzaxfw7zreMWjSy-VQNazaaLcPzIgEm0zW3qcBF8o4xUXfinM9iK_N4CH0nPp_t30IDjc/s1600/2019-05-31g.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUaLUcIJrvWbmBM0hfYBEAU5NI5CWmCSqLrWLy5a3IsLMp4etWhX_yxPjSwPxJ9CWyFhIai4Vzaxfw7zreMWjSy-VQNazaaLcPzIgEm0zW3qcBF8o4xUXfinM9iK_N4CH0nPp_t30IDjc/s320/2019-05-31g.jpg" /></a></center>Promenade, La Baule</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGynJOkXoXI-ITtQE876BJIGRcppFQ2I5smJ8BNosIS0G08fH3ivKnWXO6J-pbHPxA7uS_hxrX2STFG70Bh5n9UOL7slp5l0eC-M0PZC4C0wskH7UU4QPH90njM5otO7a1LmOPWUORnzCH/s1600/2019-05-31h.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGynJOkXoXI-ITtQE876BJIGRcppFQ2I5smJ8BNosIS0G08fH3ivKnWXO6J-pbHPxA7uS_hxrX2STFG70Bh5n9UOL7slp5l0eC-M0PZC4C0wskH7UU4QPH90njM5otO7a1LmOPWUORnzCH/s320/2019-05-31h.jpg" /></a></center>House, La Baule</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlIOoN9_5X4ibxdumYjllP7u5SJZBjqfKzucYRecSAEvWBzmAcAAvoMLo1aONi9BsP4oywPVIxRqCTwDzQ7Ria93REA9WuvBbsLZuJHo6Mmdz_kO5s3_byoyAoYDO1kYBoIvh6305n3cV/s1600/2019-05-31i.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlIOoN9_5X4ibxdumYjllP7u5SJZBjqfKzucYRecSAEvWBzmAcAAvoMLo1aONi9BsP4oywPVIxRqCTwDzQ7Ria93REA9WuvBbsLZuJHo6Mmdz_kO5s3_byoyAoYDO1kYBoIvh6305n3cV/s320/2019-05-31i.jpg" /></a></center>Hotel, La Baule</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkvGQPTYfopN7gjZzG7pwGGU9uxCB6Uf30cB2Ie0WPa9dEd37iAOsZSnpHhx7sgldM2znJpYVNxvs_n3zakgEleJyEalUAsO1LpxlXAtU41neE88maBxTFkAyfFeBuhpiYMt7wD-12smG/s1600/2019-05-31j.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkvGQPTYfopN7gjZzG7pwGGU9uxCB6Uf30cB2Ie0WPa9dEd37iAOsZSnpHhx7sgldM2znJpYVNxvs_n3zakgEleJyEalUAsO1LpxlXAtU41neE88maBxTFkAyfFeBuhpiYMt7wD-12smG/s320/2019-05-31j.jpg" /></a></center>Beach, La Baule</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_LBjTPPZUwtuLnKxyCdt7pR5emfWbBguocKFYLyrfd-aJxZaS85YH7aEzP3QaduwyD8nMuBXHgOGNxC2T6o2rFbgFPRnqAz20j_BARMrU-XR5GvdtFguFIeOlAQ40EILwLFobS6GKQnN/s1600/2019-05-31k.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_LBjTPPZUwtuLnKxyCdt7pR5emfWbBguocKFYLyrfd-aJxZaS85YH7aEzP3QaduwyD8nMuBXHgOGNxC2T6o2rFbgFPRnqAz20j_BARMrU-XR5GvdtFguFIeOlAQ40EILwLFobS6GKQnN/s320/2019-05-31k.jpg" /></a></center>Beach, La Baule</center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">We continued on to one of our favourite places, La Roche-Bernard. It is set on a rocky outcrop near the mouth of the River Vilaine, the longest river to pass through Brittany at 220Km long. The rock is topped by a rusting cannon and at its foot, by the river. Beneath the bridge lies our campsite. It is a small peaceful site and a contrast to the previous night.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjViLZi5nWe0eQ3CmKmuOBksFdzoY22jG9fZjvCAsN3sYq-dQAggqzMjMjVoOJMw3uV0725L_dimpBdKDH9KiFu8HGo6N57GYQJk2P6xK3E8C8Ao05GF71EhA6OARBxPOpbok6qc7mI24a/s1600/2019-05-31l.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjViLZi5nWe0eQ3CmKmuOBksFdzoY22jG9fZjvCAsN3sYq-dQAggqzMjMjVoOJMw3uV0725L_dimpBdKDH9KiFu8HGo6N57GYQJk2P6xK3E8C8Ao05GF71EhA6OARBxPOpbok6qc7mI24a/s320/2019-05-31l.jpg" /></a></center>Vilaine. River. Roche-Bernard. </center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJl2-kzc2CAgu6uYOsAow5_Qi6GMlDGj7YmX9wFFK5ozOBMkEU1xiXlKgoM80NCdAtbdStHo88QLMRgxemoSAq6GrAj17yQHjoYtxkGuDrgIixknP6FuhgQngxyONaIsPrMGwC7QzbBXmQ/s1600/2019-05-31n.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJl2-kzc2CAgu6uYOsAow5_Qi6GMlDGj7YmX9wFFK5ozOBMkEU1xiXlKgoM80NCdAtbdStHo88QLMRgxemoSAq6GrAj17yQHjoYtxkGuDrgIixknP6FuhgQngxyONaIsPrMGwC7QzbBXmQ/s320/2019-05-31n.jpg" /></a></center>Bridge. Campsite in foreground. Roche-Bernard. </center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntKXAtzM4zttIoGmzW7lx2tudcoMpLqOJE-MyJG6mHva-bXDAohzYL8SS8rX5sc_PbRc86EbQRLw3ZnZQnBvkAN11Z1xYb6C8z8bEBDWdbpP40ARjcp3P56MphhzLv4-bwATsKnQ1jnsT/s1600/2019-05-31p.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntKXAtzM4zttIoGmzW7lx2tudcoMpLqOJE-MyJG6mHva-bXDAohzYL8SS8rX5sc_PbRc86EbQRLw3ZnZQnBvkAN11Z1xYb6C8z8bEBDWdbpP40ARjcp3P56MphhzLv4-bwATsKnQ1jnsT/s320/2019-05-31p.jpg" /></a></center>Street. From port to town. Roche-Bernard. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Saturday 1 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We decided to visit the coast which was not sensible. Weekend traffic was queuing at roundabouts and traffic gridlocked. Eventually we extracated ourselves and returned to La Roche-Bernard (we had at least reserved our place for the evening). We strolled round the town, enjoyed a beer on the main squarewhere we found many English tourists. Nearby was a wedding party with car horns sounding and people in fancy dress. Most eventually ended up in the river ending up in river.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sunday 2 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">Next morning we moved inland away from the weekend crowds and the heat, arriving in Redon with its marina and network of canals. A book festival was in progress in the cloisters of the church, Les Mysteriales, devoted to fantasy, science fiction and all things other-worldly with a fair proportion of bandes dessinées. The main square is an interesting and successful attempt to link both sides of the railway tracks by an open space with a landscaped underpass. It also has a number of half-timbered buildings. </center></center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_kZQ2lNadimcFUMcLLsNkIDxhZfgqPKufoW8iIhEsEMwkCL639XwjVYSufeD2dDcOKficdeAYe5WaTGJH9BuwSVnK7g-ONfmwvS8mF72GI8EfuD8fe2DysdLxZPcGqGXbKXurZR7CjjKI/s1600/2019-06-02a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_kZQ2lNadimcFUMcLLsNkIDxhZfgqPKufoW8iIhEsEMwkCL639XwjVYSufeD2dDcOKficdeAYe5WaTGJH9BuwSVnK7g-ONfmwvS8mF72GI8EfuD8fe2DysdLxZPcGqGXbKXurZR7CjjKI/s320/2019-06-02a.jpg" /></a></center>Marina. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHQ5DSvD8tPhZOLa9SL9eIGFWBl5VUV7JrmtwbtZmv5R41-vBe9M3whnwgcl5gCv-KbHRoaGPbIi0NBxt7DCGGyweKdkhKapl_gvPUnniSBC2BdriLQnTqK3ob-cBYMEediVVGjgSkl6K/s1600/2019-06-02b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHQ5DSvD8tPhZOLa9SL9eIGFWBl5VUV7JrmtwbtZmv5R41-vBe9M3whnwgcl5gCv-KbHRoaGPbIi0NBxt7DCGGyweKdkhKapl_gvPUnniSBC2BdriLQnTqK3ob-cBYMEediVVGjgSkl6K/s320/2019-06-02b.jpg" /></a></center>Canal. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH63Fjw0cvHfnZv6R8xftGYzCyaP2wQyOi7XGBMjNjTxbLqrkbUTIZYCunKFj2tTSCWwUh51jim3OEW1pvOOqyubsvsAPQXaBwP0MciKI619xsYB_VbhXDd0chIt3ZJEv1GpQtgXkAJJLO/s1600/2019-06-02c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH63Fjw0cvHfnZv6R8xftGYzCyaP2wQyOi7XGBMjNjTxbLqrkbUTIZYCunKFj2tTSCWwUh51jim3OEW1pvOOqyubsvsAPQXaBwP0MciKI619xsYB_VbhXDd0chIt3ZJEv1GpQtgXkAJJLO/s320/2019-06-02c.jpg" /></a></center>Mystériales. Book festival. In cloisters. Redon. </center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszd-rgb99CRBCJcTdAY3IlBbr4dXLugko4HLvINJbY4vuSX28mZ6WzNkpW9_YT2e0JheU5vsno086-85KgaNCD-Twkxhaug7PJc4J1r2gWrI5F26Wl-yVuEebP8gxvRyGpeLSU_li2Byn/s1600/2019-06-02d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszd-rgb99CRBCJcTdAY3IlBbr4dXLugko4HLvINJbY4vuSX28mZ6WzNkpW9_YT2e0JheU5vsno086-85KgaNCD-Twkxhaug7PJc4J1r2gWrI5F26Wl-yVuEebP8gxvRyGpeLSU_li2Byn/s320/2019-06-02d.jpg" /></a></center>Cloisters. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgP8Iv66tO5HpNW0oBNq_FYHEmP72Tdd6PSg4cgTC3S8qwF7PgC90n6K5Rs6zQLjzJvArSthYvF1Nu3Uo_Au3RWbaPa0WQHDXizXmpdXKBpcJT7k7XFtcGTbCxiJ4G5cqjC0zzuZYRxh0/s1600/2019-06-02e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgP8Iv66tO5HpNW0oBNq_FYHEmP72Tdd6PSg4cgTC3S8qwF7PgC90n6K5Rs6zQLjzJvArSthYvF1Nu3Uo_Au3RWbaPa0WQHDXizXmpdXKBpcJT7k7XFtcGTbCxiJ4G5cqjC0zzuZYRxh0/s320/2019-06-02e.jpg" /></a></center>Cloisters. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjfgAGJxa4e-TAkLbG8qKCDd7bZNOS9OqBBeI_YVH0nGYGa1CVFgIEFBm4QMrAO1wkIogoDmYRKgV2TBNRnHmy03aZ3pcKg_sTXsrMg8v7wec0AqYSCvsDEkVncyCvFXzPAxPw8LUm8ja/s1600/2019-06-02f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjfgAGJxa4e-TAkLbG8qKCDd7bZNOS9OqBBeI_YVH0nGYGa1CVFgIEFBm4QMrAO1wkIogoDmYRKgV2TBNRnHmy03aZ3pcKg_sTXsrMg8v7wec0AqYSCvsDEkVncyCvFXzPAxPw8LUm8ja/s320/2019-06-02f.jpg" /></a></center>Cloisters. Capital. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwGQ0UUPxgxOJARM5s8mGWhTVgkn5uFKYZU8X0N7r2WNQF21CgQ7DnNRi7wiUChBdkKBp8-K7t1VijpIA2JvcT0TJQ5iq5pq7N3rAP_udzCEJDthjqkURoqZJGd3Y8f8KEZYkvPAW4EM1/s1600/2019-06-02g.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwGQ0UUPxgxOJARM5s8mGWhTVgkn5uFKYZU8X0N7r2WNQF21CgQ7DnNRi7wiUChBdkKBp8-K7t1VijpIA2JvcT0TJQ5iq5pq7N3rAP_udzCEJDthjqkURoqZJGd3Y8f8KEZYkvPAW4EM1/s320/2019-06-02g.jpg" /></a></center>Church. From square with railway line crossing. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzMyp8r1JcCQA2rxEvNgkyzZGPhe_Tu05ditknGs-ewXFelkdFr5iXKRm5MqCOL-EEk9LZVRlD1nJkE4tROb1o15EOvx-_s3kUjWKALPFgnPhtrVtULHJRwCRkM83BwGl13ih-M7g5wp7/s1600/2019-06-02h.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzMyp8r1JcCQA2rxEvNgkyzZGPhe_Tu05ditknGs-ewXFelkdFr5iXKRm5MqCOL-EEk9LZVRlD1nJkE4tROb1o15EOvx-_s3kUjWKALPFgnPhtrVtULHJRwCRkM83BwGl13ih-M7g5wp7/s320/2019-06-02h.jpg" /></a></center>Street. Half-timbered buildings. Redon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0Y70ChBa9lQ1O6wTG4AZBtlNqj_Cm6lOcdjnbYphi9RVL0XLe1i7BtfL8JfKztXK6eW_7qKACb0IkoS4pB0Ehl-oMNxS7JX_ovPGgy-YajM3MklJtHdrVc1Mx5JNV5fCeRGPujKJ3_bQ/s1600/2019-06-02i.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0Y70ChBa9lQ1O6wTG4AZBtlNqj_Cm6lOcdjnbYphi9RVL0XLe1i7BtfL8JfKztXK6eW_7qKACb0IkoS4pB0Ehl-oMNxS7JX_ovPGgy-YajM3MklJtHdrVc1Mx5JNV5fCeRGPujKJ3_bQ/s320/2019-06-02i.jpg" /></a></center>Canal. Redon. </center><center><br />
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Our next port of call was Ploërmel. </center><br />
<center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-D6Udvplz9Unxt6RQcPgORNjmHVBUwSULYRTiFbNokjjICqqPd1vXQUAttZcDABmo8qpePmfKYsy_HJI55EnkeCElN-ZsRzBE0SUY1JZES3V9M8kDcAhsd5oZ5MRhZV1Cha-Ev3NZjZ1/s1600/2019-06-02j.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-D6Udvplz9Unxt6RQcPgORNjmHVBUwSULYRTiFbNokjjICqqPd1vXQUAttZcDABmo8qpePmfKYsy_HJI55EnkeCElN-ZsRzBE0SUY1JZES3V9M8kDcAhsd5oZ5MRhZV1Cha-Ev3NZjZ1/s320/2019-06-02j.jpg" /></a></center>House. James II stayed here December 1690. Ploërmel. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllwIe3NuubsjTb0_o7Q-knIeI8pYdHjep0HhsVP-pcTJvtlUdeGkeRrSeklg0ktqy2PlhcRIDQpKKT5qCAOFiXvOESZZQI4vZUJOiVmr_NZJJf9NgYJl-xAm3jb7Y3k0YylVPP_CiUUeI/s1600/2019-06-02k.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllwIe3NuubsjTb0_o7Q-knIeI8pYdHjep0HhsVP-pcTJvtlUdeGkeRrSeklg0ktqy2PlhcRIDQpKKT5qCAOFiXvOESZZQI4vZUJOiVmr_NZJJf9NgYJl-xAm3jb7Y3k0YylVPP_CiUUeI/s400/2019-06-02k.jpg" width="298" /></a></center>Half timbered building. Ploërmel. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQf_ajWzUM8qIlLpBLFunJyJ7WRVKwKmKTYJ16yx0nBvQKjJCKtOFYE3xvnI85UL9y5yy7LeeLBKSXwFTPOJlXKncf52vzUSLTqLz40MhvE1AFFZT_v_0-B-HLeJLs7s7qCi3fU15ea8z/s1600/2019-06-02l.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQf_ajWzUM8qIlLpBLFunJyJ7WRVKwKmKTYJ16yx0nBvQKjJCKtOFYE3xvnI85UL9y5yy7LeeLBKSXwFTPOJlXKncf52vzUSLTqLz40MhvE1AFFZT_v_0-B-HLeJLs7s7qCi3fU15ea8z/s400/2019-06-02l.jpg" width="298" /></a></center>House of dukes. Ploërmel. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWANoNWhfHTqAwfCFTjasOgqNWa48N7SepjR31T6Fa6-1vKr_g3a487YvEQeivd6nwzO7TwjyMLFJHSViK1WbSG4OCvjlx9wZuwbLE6Ix5QGNcWVt1aOyk1NwpvmNOx-IUAHsVLXfd5Zo/s1600/2019-06-02m.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWANoNWhfHTqAwfCFTjasOgqNWa48N7SepjR31T6Fa6-1vKr_g3a487YvEQeivd6nwzO7TwjyMLFJHSViK1WbSG4OCvjlx9wZuwbLE6Ix5QGNcWVt1aOyk1NwpvmNOx-IUAHsVLXfd5Zo/s400/2019-06-02m.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Gateway. Ploërmel. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiS2fz5IeS_ti997-ePCxzyKKzOhNUFzHPt2SmFb8y7VurEqPomRf5PTW4wDbrVZ2M6zwUikFXJAhGu-TH3ritxj0XqYH_iO4papov0s2KTRq246cu8Yk4CpTQMkZTLgx1yoeXhcKfHhSz/s1600/2019-06-02n.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiS2fz5IeS_ti997-ePCxzyKKzOhNUFzHPt2SmFb8y7VurEqPomRf5PTW4wDbrVZ2M6zwUikFXJAhGu-TH3ritxj0XqYH_iO4papov0s2KTRq246cu8Yk4CpTQMkZTLgx1yoeXhcKfHhSz/s320/2019-06-02n.jpg" /></a></center>Astronomical clock. With orrery. Ploërmel.</center><center> </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">Josselin is a beautiful town with a great variety of things to admire. Dominating the helf-timbered houses is the castle high above the Canal de Nantes à Brest. which was started by Napoleon to avoid the blockades of France's sea-borne trade. It was only completed in 1830s after much heavy labour by convicts cutting through rocks. In the church there is the important tomb of Olivier de Clisson, Seigneur de Bretagne and Connétable de France (1336-1407).</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPRjpJn8D3FONf241UpHhpz0sfC5edGH4ago_bwbTKKWyBfe3d_7UU4QyjpH_JFNfZtds2pX7aXBvtrFQITA3IEkuSCrKMloCYUK5dvxyuoyi4cAXLdeGH6UmPHqxorcXvU4pop3eMODx/s1600/2019-06-02o.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPRjpJn8D3FONf241UpHhpz0sfC5edGH4ago_bwbTKKWyBfe3d_7UU4QyjpH_JFNfZtds2pX7aXBvtrFQITA3IEkuSCrKMloCYUK5dvxyuoyi4cAXLdeGH6UmPHqxorcXvU4pop3eMODx/s320/2019-06-02o.jpg" /></a></center>Garden. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGn8s-caaBSTjo7FhL-ZIdmk6zcthfi3wZMS9fz-ALn-zVs2KCQEvOM-5QUCARL9npOcd6ZXW0_SvIKHq8WUa-DL6aaE89vw0lCv-3q7qn4z0OJacvQq179TXiLR9r_0SDrQp09k8borJ/s1600/2019-06-02p.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGn8s-caaBSTjo7FhL-ZIdmk6zcthfi3wZMS9fz-ALn-zVs2KCQEvOM-5QUCARL9npOcd6ZXW0_SvIKHq8WUa-DL6aaE89vw0lCv-3q7qn4z0OJacvQq179TXiLR9r_0SDrQp09k8borJ/s320/2019-06-02p.jpg" /></a></center>Houses. Half-timbered. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrSc5W8mORih-PZmfjobFdbF_F2rPRSj7q4Gm1KTA1uOPYEfLoKLDAHhZOXfuOiSFQM63-_li_Xx75FsSZ7W373XMlvN_98M0zT9zmPuHNhBhyfMNZG9OP9_Z3hq1nTF1BpNtxkwuU9X_/s1600/2019-06-02q.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrSc5W8mORih-PZmfjobFdbF_F2rPRSj7q4Gm1KTA1uOPYEfLoKLDAHhZOXfuOiSFQM63-_li_Xx75FsSZ7W373XMlvN_98M0zT9zmPuHNhBhyfMNZG9OP9_Z3hq1nTF1BpNtxkwuU9X_/s320/2019-06-02q.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. Main gate. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4-6Fbb9qnKWJYyHmIWeVOB1mUfgFRfPf-t_KamYN2Iem88KIiYFucervvKix6kQqSSdQEUCu0x6T9YRTK_r1pmVuBZi2zAlf9_OO_0ScRWIQ0NNw_SyvEo28pwXLhlXVf7xwbYK6TjN6/s1600/2019-06-02r.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4-6Fbb9qnKWJYyHmIWeVOB1mUfgFRfPf-t_KamYN2Iem88KIiYFucervvKix6kQqSSdQEUCu0x6T9YRTK_r1pmVuBZi2zAlf9_OO_0ScRWIQ0NNw_SyvEo28pwXLhlXVf7xwbYK6TjN6/s320/2019-06-02r.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. With Canal de Nantes à Brest. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNUCogWwq3WvWEZEp-2Y5TMnG_7fSjNzCD-VUE6DWINLbCRC8pWm6xbHVAjEWffNtuFfkx-tvBg61C8d0zUDKfzm6voEHYvadYffAENNCBKAjxd9j2B9qMEUzRZhv_qh7hWCvmZUqmHL9/s1600/2019-06-02s.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNUCogWwq3WvWEZEp-2Y5TMnG_7fSjNzCD-VUE6DWINLbCRC8pWm6xbHVAjEWffNtuFfkx-tvBg61C8d0zUDKfzm6voEHYvadYffAENNCBKAjxd9j2B9qMEUzRZhv_qh7hWCvmZUqmHL9/s320/2019-06-02s.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. With Canal de Nantes à Brest. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6yQ0tS153YbvIS6wyCZg97tsL7hMOGChoIHquTrg9TWkCoP0bhwQeyXXvjJFAUriBr91_yERsLTixXDnJb-dQQgicY78pJ5Z97s_o4X0jw6zg9-xlUMOxK33E16YnnzRUbOxF4jWJy9PX/s1600/2019-06-02t.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6yQ0tS153YbvIS6wyCZg97tsL7hMOGChoIHquTrg9TWkCoP0bhwQeyXXvjJFAUriBr91_yERsLTixXDnJb-dQQgicY78pJ5Z97s_o4X0jw6zg9-xlUMOxK33E16YnnzRUbOxF4jWJy9PX/s320/2019-06-02t.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. With Canal de Nantes à Brest. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBE6smnP5yQr4kvhUzxzeGjH8NaDsynvlObc8faykCwBNKmi-W0OJoC2T7EAeasmCo6xcWlfK_pL8Vsk5cBIqqW6Gnz0RpUrMjcvJ_S5jMWWjwhdA9hT1d60G8C1g7UGBTbmzN78ACbPw7/s1600/2019-06-02u.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBE6smnP5yQr4kvhUzxzeGjH8NaDsynvlObc8faykCwBNKmi-W0OJoC2T7EAeasmCo6xcWlfK_pL8Vsk5cBIqqW6Gnz0RpUrMjcvJ_S5jMWWjwhdA9hT1d60G8C1g7UGBTbmzN78ACbPw7/s320/2019-06-02u.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. With Canal de Nantes à Brest. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YfBuMiO4GhrQG5wMKMdJB4aCvqEA9Kqn1dl_22LDiEpOi_IFXFKjDuE2NJ-smsikZY1xO5ZdkMu85ESpVmN7FtR4K_ckCL8M9DmWR3f5kWs83o3XM02MF7PHmME6G5dqeTUoMxYbtpfK/s1600/2019-06-02v.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YfBuMiO4GhrQG5wMKMdJB4aCvqEA9Kqn1dl_22LDiEpOi_IFXFKjDuE2NJ-smsikZY1xO5ZdkMu85ESpVmN7FtR4K_ckCL8M9DmWR3f5kWs83o3XM02MF7PHmME6G5dqeTUoMxYbtpfK/s400/2019-06-02v.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Spire. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4Vxjsjdn5joEoQjI3JK7LXtHdh45w8d5KxT9MohhIjPKbwwsnROvrwqXwtD7PMFmirYk517WYbgWGWRZyfV5aXUjZY6oqJ57P0Gyzxses7Oboj0Y5WXgn4Vu68AGeTUT39VBSG6cHQpU/s1600/2019-06-02w.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4Vxjsjdn5joEoQjI3JK7LXtHdh45w8d5KxT9MohhIjPKbwwsnROvrwqXwtD7PMFmirYk517WYbgWGWRZyfV5aXUjZY6oqJ57P0Gyzxses7Oboj0Y5WXgn4Vu68AGeTUT39VBSG6cHQpU/s400/2019-06-02w.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Gargoyles. Josselin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWaDFWWr8zfXlS9CGdn_3lelAjOZqIsg7yfdwCtOLm0kiSWgHHvAiLx5Do2wspXgnLgrprpIMABL9zkcV9xCQNQABO-DaHP-aKY-qBUEDW6vyL3UzSqrbXLt817iwOCuGmycxaBB9bsgv2/s1600/2019-06-02x.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWaDFWWr8zfXlS9CGdn_3lelAjOZqIsg7yfdwCtOLm0kiSWgHHvAiLx5Do2wspXgnLgrprpIMABL9zkcV9xCQNQABO-DaHP-aKY-qBUEDW6vyL3UzSqrbXLt817iwOCuGmycxaBB9bsgv2/s320/2019-06-02x.jpg" /></a></center>Olivier de Clisson. Tomb. Seigneur de Bretagne. Connétable de France 1336-1407. Josselin. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Monday 3 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We left the campsite in Loudeac without visiting town and made for Quintin, another town with a wide range of sites, the old town with its half-timbered houses set high above a lake. The church of Notre-Dame-de-Délivrance has grand approaches and inside there is a reliquary of Our Lady's girdle, much visited by pregnant women. There is also the medieval effigy of Jean II Lord of Quintin which suffered the indignity of being turned upside down and used as a doorstep. The grounds of the castle - or rather castles - were in use for a gastronomy festival which unfortunately was in the process of being cleared away when we visited. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_leGLPi498WoD-ZPxrCwGaK3UfmIH7WLFba0Nm94Ag_g6uCqIyNSuVrP8bmuH7G9MFHRh2G8HCkPkYwAWNSpbwqHHz9rC3QJlpPLO_DS0WY9SvzlTp38pTNRKDOHESLZbtjcgof6PEABv/s1600/2019-06-03a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_leGLPi498WoD-ZPxrCwGaK3UfmIH7WLFba0Nm94Ag_g6uCqIyNSuVrP8bmuH7G9MFHRh2G8HCkPkYwAWNSpbwqHHz9rC3QJlpPLO_DS0WY9SvzlTp38pTNRKDOHESLZbtjcgof6PEABv/s320/2019-06-03a.jpg" /></a></center>Lake. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiegozseLhe0xOnQ8aFckVKYjA44DNBSkeI5_9phrVJDpQRpO1dLP48dI_LMxC7FfldGkG595MXy86L8IWUNv28T5w3G84zUBmzSPv75EOzJcTYXerZ4JYRtGT294O8xbMZyyh_0vY0aEg/s1600/2019-06-03b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiegozseLhe0xOnQ8aFckVKYjA44DNBSkeI5_9phrVJDpQRpO1dLP48dI_LMxC7FfldGkG595MXy86L8IWUNv28T5w3G84zUBmzSPv75EOzJcTYXerZ4JYRtGT294O8xbMZyyh_0vY0aEg/s320/2019-06-03b.jpg" /></a></center>Half-timbered buildings. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBfuoh5xCXrLhTgU3U982a7FgJDFsJvJyhxTcdHI97713HJvuNydrd2ZtLhHmRd7uA5upZzzNL6JnhjVmLp2RSPUAXLDfnnyfYssnlcfh3uypXUWAvNSYG8g2352oo6eKi4Hoc-gG-hIq/s1600/2019-06-03c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBfuoh5xCXrLhTgU3U982a7FgJDFsJvJyhxTcdHI97713HJvuNydrd2ZtLhHmRd7uA5upZzzNL6JnhjVmLp2RSPUAXLDfnnyfYssnlcfh3uypXUWAvNSYG8g2352oo6eKi4Hoc-gG-hIq/s320/2019-06-03c.jpg" /></a></center>Notre-Dame-de-Délivrance. Church. Approach. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzpO_RPDuaKPzhlH176-vNIONNWw_jFdXPPc7U8aSZpcl_sbNUE57Ad54dfg0tS903Bh1CbLEKKv-kNg9RbJjaNvKBbZcXHiQby9LOY2i4DKBOdDo109zAvRyq-zjaIZEdDtjd9LyJ76V/s1600/2019-06-03d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzpO_RPDuaKPzhlH176-vNIONNWw_jFdXPPc7U8aSZpcl_sbNUE57Ad54dfg0tS903Bh1CbLEKKv-kNg9RbJjaNvKBbZcXHiQby9LOY2i4DKBOdDo109zAvRyq-zjaIZEdDtjd9LyJ76V/s320/2019-06-03d.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. Garden. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-a7gNUdtaBcdEcZXIOkl9wb1dqPDDYpZM51jxMV39W-9XMo4aopBaZpUVo6VaMB5s351hulsxijSEr1Aj621IhIU0N6iRmSe_nT4mYEnAazQuQVipnrIs9RgjQGYTWYpfr9pY325zgWJs/s1600/2019-06-03e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-a7gNUdtaBcdEcZXIOkl9wb1dqPDDYpZM51jxMV39W-9XMo4aopBaZpUVo6VaMB5s351hulsxijSEr1Aj621IhIU0N6iRmSe_nT4mYEnAazQuQVipnrIs9RgjQGYTWYpfr9pY325zgWJs/s320/2019-06-03e.jpg" /></a></center>Notre-Dame-de-Délivrance. Church. Approach. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YrBCwXrPXaY80u4c25pNJVlx90FBP-pme6ik2zMXn7u6cW80_HLSiEbgt5PzYw5DMwfHG0SFxC0WMFtl01SUGTqe9ffZ75yMorh5Ti2_y1d07nukAdIW5jalmGwapL7HGSXm8oXrj2-S/s1600/2019-06-03f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YrBCwXrPXaY80u4c25pNJVlx90FBP-pme6ik2zMXn7u6cW80_HLSiEbgt5PzYw5DMwfHG0SFxC0WMFtl01SUGTqe9ffZ75yMorh5Ti2_y1d07nukAdIW5jalmGwapL7HGSXm8oXrj2-S/s320/2019-06-03f.jpg" /></a></center>River. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQo2yI_FgVwiPKra44gKxc6_wiRptCfoBArWot6yj0BbA1s6o8lZbzsjKTwHqB77-IAWf9psQN-qccqcLGZqBX-App-iJlC5sqfOdY2OKm3dz2C0BwOk8y1p4r_Fdoz8i98LJBqRD2WnxX/s1600/2019-06-03g.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQo2yI_FgVwiPKra44gKxc6_wiRptCfoBArWot6yj0BbA1s6o8lZbzsjKTwHqB77-IAWf9psQN-qccqcLGZqBX-App-iJlC5sqfOdY2OKm3dz2C0BwOk8y1p4r_Fdoz8i98LJBqRD2WnxX/s320/2019-06-03g.jpg" /></a></center>Notre-Dame-de-Délivrance. Church. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCbiGlcrKsdMvAaLqaPjzNsmmMkB5OtE4X9jWM_CoZUPEUSq7tbBZcxHE7zgdOmRfpaBHIGr486qEIM8eJrcKaR9QfCiSdM3QKGOwqEAvJfIsH0MX-34HynSJ9GFoUsd-P50hjDhMIDQ7/s1600/2019-06-03h.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCbiGlcrKsdMvAaLqaPjzNsmmMkB5OtE4X9jWM_CoZUPEUSq7tbBZcxHE7zgdOmRfpaBHIGr486qEIM8eJrcKaR9QfCiSdM3QKGOwqEAvJfIsH0MX-34HynSJ9GFoUsd-P50hjDhMIDQ7/s320/2019-06-03h.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. With insect hotel. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorx_CpRLovqn-rtbOfgBeYND1Zl2DOWAUUfN5z6r084RuQhYG_sxXVOEcDPpr1HNlvlH7EGgBtwz_WLXUFde29-GGekAmEqTZKNkhWlRQwEzfTBwAa-P55pkcZ0QP7kO6ILyacJh7wFjy/s1600/2019-06-03i.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorx_CpRLovqn-rtbOfgBeYND1Zl2DOWAUUfN5z6r084RuQhYG_sxXVOEcDPpr1HNlvlH7EGgBtwz_WLXUFde29-GGekAmEqTZKNkhWlRQwEzfTBwAa-P55pkcZ0QP7kO6ILyacJh7wFjy/s320/2019-06-03i.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. With lake. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCfSGL1uD1tX6aYz-6u015xIrJ-pF3EHAKPDGFlZMxw8F8erKfrrRxDw75y5ApYSXw0znA0U-O02GSzNuIisMANELH_DK1CvoCgSktKTv3dxLpbS4KOGuVzQ7uaQ377v_lxGQeFKYrHaA/s1600/2019-06-03j.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCfSGL1uD1tX6aYz-6u015xIrJ-pF3EHAKPDGFlZMxw8F8erKfrrRxDw75y5ApYSXw0znA0U-O02GSzNuIisMANELH_DK1CvoCgSktKTv3dxLpbS4KOGuVzQ7uaQ377v_lxGQeFKYrHaA/s320/2019-06-03j.jpg" /></a></center>Ceinture de Notre Dame. Reliquary. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZ9YU4RhFj4tGu-N-9cjONpnvqyLtdVn69Q_A9F6bvE3oziv95mg-Wj9HJg-bB0PUNmoxKQBl4FelB3BlGehOjl7-8XxONM2miWPArGx6FgLn9C7EFNkAQ8Qh9M9cu_NX77L5HK04UB2y/s1600/2019-06-03k.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZ9YU4RhFj4tGu-N-9cjONpnvqyLtdVn69Q_A9F6bvE3oziv95mg-Wj9HJg-bB0PUNmoxKQBl4FelB3BlGehOjl7-8XxONM2miWPArGx6FgLn9C7EFNkAQ8Qh9M9cu_NX77L5HK04UB2y/s320/2019-06-03k.jpg" /></a></center>John II Lord of Quintin. Monument. Used as doorstep. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivDcAZYvRChcMqu5p4AUOKFbQNt3N57mxCcO9BO2UhB6NZYznnO_hdj8_GQYQb2lk3oYQrjvBK1Kw8chTtZhlQjg1N2S740cH3GZNeIV43JpbVbHnPi_9DUq5PLmEy9SJhyphenhyphen3oE5eUcSwh3/s1600/2019-06-03l.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivDcAZYvRChcMqu5p4AUOKFbQNt3N57mxCcO9BO2UhB6NZYznnO_hdj8_GQYQb2lk3oYQrjvBK1Kw8chTtZhlQjg1N2S740cH3GZNeIV43JpbVbHnPi_9DUq5PLmEy9SJhyphenhyphen3oE5eUcSwh3/s400/2019-06-03l.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Pulpit. Saint Mark. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXvyweUk0Az-UUt_QVZWgoM2jbHykfZIaaz7zznj8M8CH2Q7I_NGBw2TkICmybH8dVgLC-BurMqesXvKpNY40hXVgxmbdJkpOmmODjQihAKdDQsDsCwDClt938HOPoY9uyInIISz5xGpst/s1600/2019-06-03m.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXvyweUk0Az-UUt_QVZWgoM2jbHykfZIaaz7zznj8M8CH2Q7I_NGBw2TkICmybH8dVgLC-BurMqesXvKpNY40hXVgxmbdJkpOmmODjQihAKdDQsDsCwDClt938HOPoY9uyInIISz5xGpst/s320/2019-06-03m.jpg" /></a></center>Fountain. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI5hCka-VuvkaA9U41hyphenhyphenbwWGao1a3HA5B2yvvkIZyfEYiAm2pvVRsRHdH9QpRsGKNZpk3JhCzOWCEcQcRDcc8LEyxT5LVrNtmFmqjcfBqkIOveNphzH29E9DtZNpTCwk3HnB0-9LNqC1T8/s1600/2019-06-03n.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI5hCka-VuvkaA9U41hyphenhyphenbwWGao1a3HA5B2yvvkIZyfEYiAm2pvVRsRHdH9QpRsGKNZpk3JhCzOWCEcQcRDcc8LEyxT5LVrNtmFmqjcfBqkIOveNphzH29E9DtZNpTCwk3HnB0-9LNqC1T8/s400/2019-06-03n.jpg" width="294" /></a></center>Church. Quintin. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl7w49gs58fCugiKSVSSFszQ5JmT4K5S8DURHhxZgPsBpCV3O-M9lY3hwp78xembiWKn0j1Dygo2e4SbnScdb0r-Z2iwCAaP1yCcUWzBLwe2ITVtyIxm1j6CQeWz8dayhE34c43TdCKyF_/s1600/2019-06-03o.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl7w49gs58fCugiKSVSSFszQ5JmT4K5S8DURHhxZgPsBpCV3O-M9lY3hwp78xembiWKn0j1Dygo2e4SbnScdb0r-Z2iwCAaP1yCcUWzBLwe2ITVtyIxm1j6CQeWz8dayhE34c43TdCKyF_/s320/2019-06-03o.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. Gateway. Gastronomy festival. Quintin. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBw2C446jDJhAJE_me7S22qKS8Q7sX4482MuVOzbZYpW4nIJTZoAy0x1CDgxyM_HTynPkqRuT3RWt-ZxZYRxWCGu6XUqOgRHeGpCQr_QaU6ym2px5x0_AYhKIo4zfwiNL4U3litAyV9Ip/s1600/2019-06-03p.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBw2C446jDJhAJE_me7S22qKS8Q7sX4482MuVOzbZYpW4nIJTZoAy0x1CDgxyM_HTynPkqRuT3RWt-ZxZYRxWCGu6XUqOgRHeGpCQr_QaU6ym2px5x0_AYhKIo4zfwiNL4U3litAyV9Ip/s320/2019-06-03p.jpg" /></a></center>General view. Châtelaudrin. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We discovered an idyllic campsite in Pabu by an old linen mill on River Trieux. Run by Englishman and French wife who had taken it over from the municipal campsite. It was their first year running it as an ACSI campsite. They were sadly disappointed as it had not attracted the hoped for crowds. For us it was idylic however, and offset our disappointment with the site at Lelan Lapaju. They'd had a slow start to the season which meant they are unlikely to recoup the expensive fee for ACSI listing them (1100 Euros!). They'd had less interest from British visitors in view of the uncertainty over Brexit. He told us he would be taking out French citizenship and said he found it disappointing that Britain was turning away from the Continent it had fought so bravely to liberate 75 years ago. He had undertaken extensive research in French archives to prove ownership of picturesque weir beside the Milin Kerhe linen mill to prevent it from being dismantled and had been able to prove the mill mentioned in 1652 and so pre-dated the Revolution, which clarified his ownership. Much restoration waiting to be done by the commune and himself. They had ideas for redevelopment (gallery etc) but at present it served as a log store and home to colony of hundreds of Daubenton's bats. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"> </center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOrwn0ZHFlJ_OWf3O5LyTBrqSX82CYSDiOe4pcFn758n03Gs2Xut_B5fH6Z2jmQ28_CyYM-cY3_EfYLI1ibYFUM65HtPSZlCygZoWFJQ_CwSaIpLCxfFanb0mMUIfA227S6iKZTnOGgcSS/s1600/2019-06-03q.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOrwn0ZHFlJ_OWf3O5LyTBrqSX82CYSDiOe4pcFn758n03Gs2Xut_B5fH6Z2jmQ28_CyYM-cY3_EfYLI1ibYFUM65HtPSZlCygZoWFJQ_CwSaIpLCxfFanb0mMUIfA227S6iKZTnOGgcSS/s320/2019-06-03q.jpg" /></a></center>Chickens. Pabu. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKhQlcFntYjhfQvuVrdGZkPsY4cxSkUditjb_gtZy8p_pVBapWo6peozUTeJQAsIpo6RnMGMFl3wAAtPC7y61N3dvjxAvLTAwzA9-fpszhVqDb5V6MDlIey6PKS5QN-_l6aOvmODWPs5Y/s1600/2019-06-03r.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKhQlcFntYjhfQvuVrdGZkPsY4cxSkUditjb_gtZy8p_pVBapWo6peozUTeJQAsIpo6RnMGMFl3wAAtPC7y61N3dvjxAvLTAwzA9-fpszhVqDb5V6MDlIey6PKS5QN-_l6aOvmODWPs5Y/s320/2019-06-03r.jpg" /></a></center>Geese. Pabu. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZQlvOvNYoxW1babQqzceiIUp2sRWkGf6mxgkzUMOTk4HWK7-utX5qADJpm9QzICKwEe45FSegQDDQyEtpLk9n0MNajlGLZQcYIRHFNiOjBuV9Uza8nih-3aPc2kGtpsf2S9M91kg_se7/s1600/2019-06-03s.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZQlvOvNYoxW1babQqzceiIUp2sRWkGf6mxgkzUMOTk4HWK7-utX5qADJpm9QzICKwEe45FSegQDDQyEtpLk9n0MNajlGLZQcYIRHFNiOjBuV9Uza8nih-3aPc2kGtpsf2S9M91kg_se7/s320/2019-06-03s.jpg" /></a></center>Geese. Pabu. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6eFqg3zJ7liZ4qnLWWE1AfNoQRIgS06pSSPCeDFlfGhUIRcbDQVIaXYGyNvZMuYakYLDrqjWcj4zaZIZIjxggN44OywTzAj3SZwe6Fb4F3L1FVvTD9D7kz7laoKtOfuap38m5DtfwYsUs/s1600/2019-06-03t.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6eFqg3zJ7liZ4qnLWWE1AfNoQRIgS06pSSPCeDFlfGhUIRcbDQVIaXYGyNvZMuYakYLDrqjWcj4zaZIZIjxggN44OywTzAj3SZwe6Fb4F3L1FVvTD9D7kz7laoKtOfuap38m5DtfwYsUs/s400/2019-06-03t.jpg" width="294" /></a></center>Chickens. With Jill. Pabu. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLkY1mM5oWLyllDI2HoHUmfp4URuTdtb9u2y3zBhhoGy9NbkPi5KIVlBjtglo-6NI4VXGV13jSad3lV3Cu8JUVwy_iRi6tt0a4oL6nccQQlGEKgE9QiPl4SfjeMtb9P2x65xSC7KNVUdX/s1600/2019-06-03u.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLkY1mM5oWLyllDI2HoHUmfp4URuTdtb9u2y3zBhhoGy9NbkPi5KIVlBjtglo-6NI4VXGV13jSad3lV3Cu8JUVwy_iRi6tt0a4oL6nccQQlGEKgE9QiPl4SfjeMtb9P2x65xSC7KNVUdX/s320/2019-06-03u.jpg" /></a></center>Chickens. With Jill. Pabu. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKBQpgBcjhY3Z5skokm5bgA2MLkeNod1CjJoc0HOR8lNA1S4DjPVu-_OgPe3quILzPUStV4QQ4aW8hSOyWtMiKvTqL6RL4q-8wxw1W-LTLU9JioNqzo-jLEt9RSRACCNYRsB_Zb6YmzSd/s1600/2019-06-04a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKBQpgBcjhY3Z5skokm5bgA2MLkeNod1CjJoc0HOR8lNA1S4DjPVu-_OgPe3quILzPUStV4QQ4aW8hSOyWtMiKvTqL6RL4q-8wxw1W-LTLU9JioNqzo-jLEt9RSRACCNYRsB_Zb6YmzSd/s320/2019-06-04a.jpg" /></a></center>Milin Kerhe. Linen mill. Pabu.</center><center><br />
</center><center><span style="text-align: justify;"><center style="text-align: justify;">From a phonecall to Jill's siter Julie we learned that she was badly ill with bronchitis and being cared for by our daughter Kate. We decided to keep our weekend appointment with Joel but bring forward our return from 14th to 12th as Kate and family had a planned travel arrangement.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tuesday 4 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We madde our way to Roscoff in case we needed to pre-book our ferry stopping for a rainy walk around Morlaix. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</center></span></center><center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfXSeFuiKUiqIqKzIrs8RkqQlArkbGowYW8nK1cVSCrhj5ajuyKJLUYQoamNpKKgiu5R8ppjTb_AdYCFIuArY6l5D_7BI16c6tjuDl4v9CsN_NdGByqvHiiVL2Ik83-Qu9YHytw12KeUI8/s1600/2019-06-04b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfXSeFuiKUiqIqKzIrs8RkqQlArkbGowYW8nK1cVSCrhj5ajuyKJLUYQoamNpKKgiu5R8ppjTb_AdYCFIuArY6l5D_7BI16c6tjuDl4v9CsN_NdGByqvHiiVL2Ik83-Qu9YHytw12KeUI8/s320/2019-06-04b.jpg" /></a></center>Maison de Duchesse Anne. House. Morlaix. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RAEh7dUEEX20CunObCVqaEVz0sUEgGgi6b0_KjohyeFDctehDEAXu4-uggarZknDvPMtxlrqZ9sYr1qHta9-WlaTJ3NZtqi4zTpHXFA0fsKbFqy13vqzS3mC54hHYsEkkDPbEr4Q8crY/s1600/2019-06-04c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RAEh7dUEEX20CunObCVqaEVz0sUEgGgi6b0_KjohyeFDctehDEAXu4-uggarZknDvPMtxlrqZ9sYr1qHta9-WlaTJ3NZtqi4zTpHXFA0fsKbFqy13vqzS3mC54hHYsEkkDPbEr4Q8crY/s320/2019-06-04c.jpg" /></a></center><center> Viaduct behind. Morlaix. </center></center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrDYDMXuvAa3cFPOvESQR1_GML_oofHEGxt0Lr2yoEck91dTXScuruuwZgaPK3cWQqgyvlBa9E4f_Bkd-2uRikaJRg_CKoFRqoAV-gqK89s0YcPJoVBIPCUvG05ZZcq51bmq6mdMotL17G/s1600/2019-06-04d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrDYDMXuvAa3cFPOvESQR1_GML_oofHEGxt0Lr2yoEck91dTXScuruuwZgaPK3cWQqgyvlBa9E4f_Bkd-2uRikaJRg_CKoFRqoAV-gqK89s0YcPJoVBIPCUvG05ZZcq51bmq6mdMotL17G/s320/2019-06-04d.jpg" /></a></center> Viaduct behind. Morlaix. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0AOMzBHygj1ye_EwHYmyeuhDV215Y_fH7RNuPe7COF8KwZuXIa6JVCyyKE1SDlIn2WTcKrpPfmmRrVoKu34rwPApyP_Kbo1N-dUkoDo8jsReKaB1fxh71u8U7fpOUpDqWtejQSOOIm_-/s1600/2019-06-04e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0AOMzBHygj1ye_EwHYmyeuhDV215Y_fH7RNuPe7COF8KwZuXIa6JVCyyKE1SDlIn2WTcKrpPfmmRrVoKu34rwPApyP_Kbo1N-dUkoDo8jsReKaB1fxh71u8U7fpOUpDqWtejQSOOIm_-/s320/2019-06-04e.jpg" /></a></center> Half-timbered houses. Morlaix. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYDlh44oN0RzDiMfjDYupUODZfC3SVusCxBbQxIgb44D5GLaYrDhsT4QeJoL6D6To6O_C-ZYAdWzU-viGRMKbVdcaPN7BZ-osemlk-fvKD7Gh-aqcbanSOokTeuHVYUNXgKYVNgbfkwYX/s1600/2019-06-04f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYDlh44oN0RzDiMfjDYupUODZfC3SVusCxBbQxIgb44D5GLaYrDhsT4QeJoL6D6To6O_C-ZYAdWzU-viGRMKbVdcaPN7BZ-osemlk-fvKD7Gh-aqcbanSOokTeuHVYUNXgKYVNgbfkwYX/s320/2019-06-04f.jpg" /></a></center>Eglise des Jacobins. Church. Morlaix.</center><center> </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">We found the campsite we had used the last time we passed through Roscoff, on the northern outskirts of Saint Saint-Pol-de-Léon beside the sea within view of the ferry port and opposite the Rocher Sainte-Anne, an island connected to the mainland by a causeway with Carantec on the shore on the other side of the Penzé estuary. </center><div><br style="text-align: justify;" /></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7I2Jer4mcupTbBa-1NNZY8bacjo7bFqyFxBUFyxSp81Lc4uZwHIM8rmfCLkUjq9fKNpvGFTqIPEviz-dnBoSgUK3pYLYuQflf_SFKxa_xh41tYCo1OqDe-DUyx2bXkUL9ZGMK-8wsFK1/s1600/2019-06-04g.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7I2Jer4mcupTbBa-1NNZY8bacjo7bFqyFxBUFyxSp81Lc4uZwHIM8rmfCLkUjq9fKNpvGFTqIPEviz-dnBoSgUK3pYLYuQflf_SFKxa_xh41tYCo1OqDe-DUyx2bXkUL9ZGMK-8wsFK1/s320/2019-06-04g.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Carantec beyond. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5WZ-Vj_tDVvzgBpUFdk0wCSAn24vp-5OAYwINixFQO6Naipe9Kvjs4Z6gNtxe8bu8Ts6kXqL1DCOmoep_kvaxpZs5V49ZPV7FssSlFcJwC42g9h92zofGzgkvSSvl9qDTvD8Z8dRvp4A/s1600/2019-06-04h.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5WZ-Vj_tDVvzgBpUFdk0wCSAn24vp-5OAYwINixFQO6Naipe9Kvjs4Z6gNtxe8bu8Ts6kXqL1DCOmoep_kvaxpZs5V49ZPV7FssSlFcJwC42g9h92zofGzgkvSSvl9qDTvD8Z8dRvp4A/s320/2019-06-04h.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Carantec beyond. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4hTT1lL8pq0WYdrFBb8oXr8SxhdK-5l_3U356BnzeEhdoAZ17d82vlaMAW7-7bNeMBMyyDXPK5gH8puQ31pkCQv2W8ciRyW1t9u0YnNNB_PKvyqqCzZpMW08QnmTXVzWKa5etGTQrsFA/s1600/2019-06-04i.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4hTT1lL8pq0WYdrFBb8oXr8SxhdK-5l_3U356BnzeEhdoAZ17d82vlaMAW7-7bNeMBMyyDXPK5gH8puQ31pkCQv2W8ciRyW1t9u0YnNNB_PKvyqqCzZpMW08QnmTXVzWKa5etGTQrsFA/s320/2019-06-04i.jpg" /></a></center>Ferry port. From Saint-Pol-de-Léon. Roscoff. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55TcNLfLEUEusus-saSluV1L_HINAQp5mUHFIX_RuFi_bqSqMB2g8TYpzVZysjEKXV5FsI9HMt4O_XFiA3WKJIpgTOUAZGaHhfcXMP5iAQQbY38WA3sB5Wwq_U3VWlezYZODpr5S90YgV/s1600/2019-06-04j.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55TcNLfLEUEusus-saSluV1L_HINAQp5mUHFIX_RuFi_bqSqMB2g8TYpzVZysjEKXV5FsI9HMt4O_XFiA3WKJIpgTOUAZGaHhfcXMP5iAQQbY38WA3sB5Wwq_U3VWlezYZODpr5S90YgV/s320/2019-06-04j.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Carantec beyond. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wednesday 5 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We made our usual visit to see what had happened to the house of Kate's clarinet teacher of many years ago. The house is in a tiny hamlet which it shares with a former ossuary, now converted into a holiday residence. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzedfY9f2hKc938gEdC-0yLKvVaidgXGOtBDNTHFpwo0FFohTC5hyfWj6SmqU78QS-6SBlKXvWgnYmoC4R6opPdMezFOQwvPQyJrzALjX5HJU7tzySyLdVjyrsyXkKqDe8jNwwucaD5xY/s1600/2019-06-05a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzedfY9f2hKc938gEdC-0yLKvVaidgXGOtBDNTHFpwo0FFohTC5hyfWj6SmqU78QS-6SBlKXvWgnYmoC4R6opPdMezFOQwvPQyJrzALjX5HJU7tzySyLdVjyrsyXkKqDe8jNwwucaD5xY/s320/2019-06-05a.jpg" /></a></center>House. Mespaul. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKlg3iLA-WWqii3tI77DxpymuqUKQLj4xD5TAmev63lSIl74Uj6egRMVBScmNjZ_N06DePn0NcXLvIUQsA8mbF85Kgdq5fFwhuwYj6kUM0vvtIzBbNNhsS0ZIEtXlU-CgYMx_XRknZcKw4/s1600/2019-06-05b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKlg3iLA-WWqii3tI77DxpymuqUKQLj4xD5TAmev63lSIl74Uj6egRMVBScmNjZ_N06DePn0NcXLvIUQsA8mbF85Kgdq5fFwhuwYj6kUM0vvtIzBbNNhsS0ZIEtXlU-CgYMx_XRknZcKw4/s320/2019-06-05b.jpg" /></a></center>House. Mespaul. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIirBOaaSMzvDiU_gjvrJODemi8FGfYRfmpXdsxBFR4IZJKVkIaNO_h_zgm-5rUwTlSMkMT23HXQvkm6A9CvZEVFmxxjyQguqutYjgunXI0TMismDdg6rdW5mDirx0YJU-ffUGmcdqtC0/s1600/2019-06-05c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIirBOaaSMzvDiU_gjvrJODemi8FGfYRfmpXdsxBFR4IZJKVkIaNO_h_zgm-5rUwTlSMkMT23HXQvkm6A9CvZEVFmxxjyQguqutYjgunXI0TMismDdg6rdW5mDirx0YJU-ffUGmcdqtC0/s320/2019-06-05c.jpg" /></a></center>Ossuary. Mespaul.</center><center> </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">Lampaul-Guimiliau gained its wealth from tanneries - no less than 146 are recorded in the area in 1780. Although only a daughter-parish of Guimilieu its wealth enabled the community to erect a church with an extremely sumptuous and elaborate interior. Saint Miliau is less honoured than Saint Paul Aurelian, the first bishop of Leon. Its steeple at 75 metres high rivalled the mother church at St Pol-de-Léon, until it was struck by lightning in 1809. Dating from 1667 the ossuary is in pure classical style. The entombment is the work of a sculptor for the Navy in Brest (1676) it was originally housed in the ossuary. </center><div><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9IjPh28PiZfFtnBn0eIDyFuKWwQ187tbY8re8ItJC1ecWqZzQ_SNgNV1Y8WTxPVrGhxOh5RAw3zwSZ0qHzLab_E-nwrUKz4NQtO0VfdyozpRkgQAUcu_Dw5rMxyYxUu_Ts_JF_Q0hPBw/s1600/2019-06-05d.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9IjPh28PiZfFtnBn0eIDyFuKWwQ187tbY8re8ItJC1ecWqZzQ_SNgNV1Y8WTxPVrGhxOh5RAw3zwSZ0qHzLab_E-nwrUKz4NQtO0VfdyozpRkgQAUcu_Dw5rMxyYxUu_Ts_JF_Q0hPBw/s400/2019-06-05d.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Calvary. With steeple. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPA250PuTUn9q-gn0GuaKa7djnGAcJpm3899UKUat5oMnumwYmFJzpwXl-sb0dEALInwklmSBqasuz9KLYFhAyRSIyBs3fvNYKk2ng0Py86A2ky4Go4sk-Bf-Wq5ZCnRnbhJb4Yrd2xlEk/s1600/2019-06-05e.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPA250PuTUn9q-gn0GuaKa7djnGAcJpm3899UKUat5oMnumwYmFJzpwXl-sb0dEALInwklmSBqasuz9KLYFhAyRSIyBs3fvNYKk2ng0Py86A2ky4Go4sk-Bf-Wq5ZCnRnbhJb4Yrd2xlEk/s400/2019-06-05e.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Ossuary. Door carving. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_ySlhY-uicoIaeLTw8ybiBV-C8Uj8q8KH9sK3__YqXZJ279oaPaVQpYKsC5Nzi0VIA15l4fGWSLpkYlFyf5IEghyphenhyphenqwFq_dJMWs6yF3lS90zwvCNymYm8DuMkoln3WHlQdNEoKLbfqEVW/s1600/2019-06-05f.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_ySlhY-uicoIaeLTw8ybiBV-C8Uj8q8KH9sK3__YqXZJ279oaPaVQpYKsC5Nzi0VIA15l4fGWSLpkYlFyf5IEghyphenhyphenqwFq_dJMWs6yF3lS90zwvCNymYm8DuMkoln3WHlQdNEoKLbfqEVW/s400/2019-06-05f.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. North entrance. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwrrHMYPZYcHHcbbT82nYP6aSgR-NRoSpHjto-7w0dqOdCMocv6JBRJRVuqpUyFromsnR-t0NtiRi16QP7GIIqHdgygvt_8o06ns5IaY0f7m7uJVhlsJy3LQavpeGlFvmDvPwkiOBCPyYF/s1600/2019-06-05g.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwrrHMYPZYcHHcbbT82nYP6aSgR-NRoSpHjto-7w0dqOdCMocv6JBRJRVuqpUyFromsnR-t0NtiRi16QP7GIIqHdgygvt_8o06ns5IaY0f7m7uJVhlsJy3LQavpeGlFvmDvPwkiOBCPyYF/s400/2019-06-05g.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Saint Pol-de-Leon. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjua3miC2kYaK5f22gLO_E-vK5_S3F5iHwkvSIcn2m-TvW7ZikzFVaDgVpij9dA15eOVYmOFuks-9jRPlq2Zk2w5TI9LlWNMg-rIAKqUyfm25i2wlEunzmpmgDhXAz2cgyzuEtdxcMMg-2J/s1600/2019-06-05h.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjua3miC2kYaK5f22gLO_E-vK5_S3F5iHwkvSIcn2m-TvW7ZikzFVaDgVpij9dA15eOVYmOFuks-9jRPlq2Zk2w5TI9LlWNMg-rIAKqUyfm25i2wlEunzmpmgDhXAz2cgyzuEtdxcMMg-2J/s400/2019-06-05h.jpg" width="300" /></a></center><center>Church. Reredos. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center></center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVFEgy50skD6PMczZaenuJ_xLhZexY6u1dm7rUBdrgcJ0Hrwhqmmphoplpokcqba1sGwDNo_dbOnkBKIaGABP6r827nmOHcRtgWig2VeJvHOb9B4N_SNFWzcVESl7hwNgPJHAoRiRtSpV/s1600/2019-06-05i.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVFEgy50skD6PMczZaenuJ_xLhZexY6u1dm7rUBdrgcJ0Hrwhqmmphoplpokcqba1sGwDNo_dbOnkBKIaGABP6r827nmOHcRtgWig2VeJvHOb9B4N_SNFWzcVESl7hwNgPJHAoRiRtSpV/s400/2019-06-05i.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Stalls. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2OxAVbvze7tG1aJZImAOo3p0GbN_0bQjOyZWEtiTcrmsr4bKZiMZK7TT9Zmddo6O4HI3Zkdb4szo4k2PcqflPsNmCAgdGi0Sz0ik-cEmbrwf8ZpELPwhFK2ZDX6_gNdD70j4_lbOCwDd/s1600/2019-06-05j.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2OxAVbvze7tG1aJZImAOo3p0GbN_0bQjOyZWEtiTcrmsr4bKZiMZK7TT9Zmddo6O4HI3Zkdb4szo4k2PcqflPsNmCAgdGi0Sz0ik-cEmbrwf8ZpELPwhFK2ZDX6_gNdD70j4_lbOCwDd/s400/2019-06-05j.jpg" width="301" /></a></center>Church. Reredos. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4JqcmWujtmkIlcQP2oPMd5VS7AIvD1VSpvdE9mTW7NZu2jRxsBa1QBOBSUvJtMjZaPXv6ZUwtUBFndO3ta-OpKbtSkYULDPkHigDmA_8yiVDLkqbt-71aZFWZqaHg6fA1_tjJpb2TG7Gu/s1600/2019-06-05k.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4JqcmWujtmkIlcQP2oPMd5VS7AIvD1VSpvdE9mTW7NZu2jRxsBa1QBOBSUvJtMjZaPXv6ZUwtUBFndO3ta-OpKbtSkYULDPkHigDmA_8yiVDLkqbt-71aZFWZqaHg6fA1_tjJpb2TG7Gu/s400/2019-06-05k.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Virgin Mary?Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyvx4FXF22qk0knwqQq04ExIxpbvFi-xFkaA5pVgg-UFpnsswuaJRMMy9WqcGFm8sBCEZQDU8BqhGqz0D_fBEG1ZJ-mLribnar4ppz2sT997b6-5XuWyLlXPIt7mt6MNL6CwMUhCOHLbm/s1600/2019-06-05l.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyvx4FXF22qk0knwqQq04ExIxpbvFi-xFkaA5pVgg-UFpnsswuaJRMMy9WqcGFm8sBCEZQDU8BqhGqz0D_fBEG1ZJ-mLribnar4ppz2sT997b6-5XuWyLlXPIt7mt6MNL6CwMUhCOHLbm/s320/2019-06-05l.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Rood. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPBuy4PtcPj6arLi044ISkH4PlpYT_FGZtNNDE0CRiR1QXyZQ1DdJ8IF1yzDGCs07JD0hnHgoXx9LrIclQHDbHC1cB-IELPkBuanqxS1GZ-QQXRq7ZTpLzz7nRes1yZ3vlhU1pEWO5ugF/s1600/2019-06-05m.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPBuy4PtcPj6arLi044ISkH4PlpYT_FGZtNNDE0CRiR1QXyZQ1DdJ8IF1yzDGCs07JD0hnHgoXx9LrIclQHDbHC1cB-IELPkBuanqxS1GZ-QQXRq7ZTpLzz7nRes1yZ3vlhU1pEWO5ugF/s400/2019-06-05m.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Descent from the cross. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcMkJn4MAagGftmtipH6JghJLvhnx9VPilGn61WvTgDTd8-Zu3C6gYU6QVydDifoCBsL5KPcaebWBmvrt1aLHvJc55Us1gnyKthcfJ2M2MDq2dtKvF8Ksm43PcG7m6wyRvg8VDnCjtI4C/s1600/2019-06-05n.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcMkJn4MAagGftmtipH6JghJLvhnx9VPilGn61WvTgDTd8-Zu3C6gYU6QVydDifoCBsL5KPcaebWBmvrt1aLHvJc55Us1gnyKthcfJ2M2MDq2dtKvF8Ksm43PcG7m6wyRvg8VDnCjtI4C/s320/2019-06-05n.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Entombment. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwynvUdc46i9uLBvWnGyWwUmE1l9t__htcFV4h5k674leTTCoKO_7v1dkIgShaoQyFoiEK4CRNCx2GPFVszT-aJP01e7k7CvPrqHtghHEUYkZ4v1zTmKpM_UkPw8yPWDFotRsQdJoZlKi/s1600/2019-06-05o.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwynvUdc46i9uLBvWnGyWwUmE1l9t__htcFV4h5k674leTTCoKO_7v1dkIgShaoQyFoiEK4CRNCx2GPFVszT-aJP01e7k7CvPrqHtghHEUYkZ4v1zTmKpM_UkPw8yPWDFotRsQdJoZlKi/s320/2019-06-05o.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Interior. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrDmlieRs2MK9iO2LAvFgAVFuZuJq69KHk2FA1PhQMIXKPhSwb7D28QCW6oDDRnQkWuYhQ8BSTA0-eI-QmP_gQpwqJdjX_FVZV04kiyCXeblPctEX3NmAwHdsUXn37rfDP6lcCNkGKx-5/s1600/2019-06-05p.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrDmlieRs2MK9iO2LAvFgAVFuZuJq69KHk2FA1PhQMIXKPhSwb7D28QCW6oDDRnQkWuYhQ8BSTA0-eI-QmP_gQpwqJdjX_FVZV04kiyCXeblPctEX3NmAwHdsUXn37rfDP6lcCNkGKx-5/s400/2019-06-05p.jpg" width="301" /></a></center>Church. Baptistry. Lampaul-Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl7vNAOYoFv6Meruzy-lsFnpZwuOIyO-Ht8MELTn5IOxx1NKsLlfbFdd09hxCnxOacjAV3F1KnrLYuctFmkCpbYQjsLGNblb-gAbOxKtQ4LHipsbnPfBTaSzgRTzl8tDh8j18Hy9NFYJ6/s1600/2019-06-05q.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl7vNAOYoFv6Meruzy-lsFnpZwuOIyO-Ht8MELTn5IOxx1NKsLlfbFdd09hxCnxOacjAV3F1KnrLYuctFmkCpbYQjsLGNblb-gAbOxKtQ4LHipsbnPfBTaSzgRTzl8tDh8j18Hy9NFYJ6/s400/2019-06-05q.jpg" width="301" /></a></center>Church. Saint Pol-de-Leon. Lampaul-Guimiliau</center><center>. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">Just a couple of kilometres down the road lies Guimilau itself, with at the entrance the Fontaine Saint Miliau, a holy well. Inside the church the Saint Miliau reredos shows various scenes from his life, praying with his family, his head in his hands after his martyrdom, his wife supporting him, distributing bread, encouraging the reapers and so on. A charming modern sculpture in a medieval style is La Fuite en Eqypte by Michel Quéré wh died in 1993. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCx7LbWTSgIPMSWuh1v3We3x5btnXDsSBjxVbpo_EpHR4qJXrYRemOFGZd7HplZRr9jXWt4EifvtU-qorU9qwnUZ0ED4A0jDU5tuP-jEwOY8y6Ue5XHykkdm1HXgrv1H_OU2SaApRn6ZRZ/s1600/2019-06-05r.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCx7LbWTSgIPMSWuh1v3We3x5btnXDsSBjxVbpo_EpHR4qJXrYRemOFGZd7HplZRr9jXWt4EifvtU-qorU9qwnUZ0ED4A0jDU5tuP-jEwOY8y6Ue5XHykkdm1HXgrv1H_OU2SaApRn6ZRZ/s320/2019-06-05r.jpg" /></a></center>Fontaine Saint Miliau. Holy well. Guimiliau.</center><center> <br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRF1vW5qBbDyDqHT8UW4Y4LVaFj-Am-PIRppMIKSb-8nh20kjNMFCc8Bt4zm_QaHgN32R_ZXeNE7u97WSmgEjvzvpeU4NNDtTjk8D1OL62PVOdT8MUQzlka1IJbh381_J_Opbz-TkY9qLt/s1600/2019-06-05s.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRF1vW5qBbDyDqHT8UW4Y4LVaFj-Am-PIRppMIKSb-8nh20kjNMFCc8Bt4zm_QaHgN32R_ZXeNE7u97WSmgEjvzvpeU4NNDtTjk8D1OL62PVOdT8MUQzlka1IJbh381_J_Opbz-TkY9qLt/s320/2019-06-05s.jpg" /></a></center>Enclos. Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDqas6AqkHKkLMp5DcfvYq7x6zCDpPQhmtTexURiEn6APBfe0EX00SGMCoYjuy5PJ0iy5qGOkPd0EamVBzkwPZKxLbCc2EX2X82KcE-h_MqLYdxGvQJtt0s3u4O6ePOdgfhASXu79Wtpm/s1600/2019-06-05t.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDqas6AqkHKkLMp5DcfvYq7x6zCDpPQhmtTexURiEn6APBfe0EX00SGMCoYjuy5PJ0iy5qGOkPd0EamVBzkwPZKxLbCc2EX2X82KcE-h_MqLYdxGvQJtt0s3u4O6ePOdgfhASXu79Wtpm/s320/2019-06-05t.jpg" /></a></center>Calvary. Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZnrAIIJuIBIvi2ZWesqykyXbkNIX3P8FADmMTIHL_favsbA59GSwEp0-ovFZYZ8uQReJ1bYhAGtNZs16KXw3YWErYUPgIle4XyrcC8_uto3Adh7_lP5L7AMsJ_v2vtrd4LSSelEoyuYI/s1600/2019-06-05u.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZnrAIIJuIBIvi2ZWesqykyXbkNIX3P8FADmMTIHL_favsbA59GSwEp0-ovFZYZ8uQReJ1bYhAGtNZs16KXw3YWErYUPgIle4XyrcC8_uto3Adh7_lP5L7AMsJ_v2vtrd4LSSelEoyuYI/s400/2019-06-05u.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Sculpture. Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3fdSkzi1cc9ummc-Y4t5YWGq-yvW8A0hkyde3NCvMQBpVllW0B5qHaKrG8_Lalywqn4Se8zc9VcLomJH0RLtxNUOSlf4NSyi5wO0iiXdme1QD30xZoVyMv4SRhgxxzIzvQWika_ALFG9/s1600/2019-06-05v.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3fdSkzi1cc9ummc-Y4t5YWGq-yvW8A0hkyde3NCvMQBpVllW0B5qHaKrG8_Lalywqn4Se8zc9VcLomJH0RLtxNUOSlf4NSyi5wO0iiXdme1QD30xZoVyMv4SRhgxxzIzvQWika_ALFG9/s400/2019-06-05v.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Saint Miliau reredos. Church. Reredos. Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-E3syJzVaregLAT7nFvGv8xedjWZnSHbfGCK6OD13IGIQYMnUzGcTQ-zIlAcX6nkEO6hhbCLTon7CBoBI0uIKwGevNdG_9u6dcQuvhyphenhyphenQrs0vO7hu-ijPWoFCQ8fOozN40_SavRMnQNzrZ/s1600/2019-06-05w.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-E3syJzVaregLAT7nFvGv8xedjWZnSHbfGCK6OD13IGIQYMnUzGcTQ-zIlAcX6nkEO6hhbCLTon7CBoBI0uIKwGevNdG_9u6dcQuvhyphenhyphenQrs0vO7hu-ijPWoFCQ8fOozN40_SavRMnQNzrZ/s320/2019-06-05w.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Beams. Guimiliau. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__4ss86CAoPSjYuvLQbAyLuYtfxBzrY0wKw57JQ9zPGCTeLqZZibmKBOOuuKOVIa5x-R6knJ5gdog-Xur2S_UWg5ZhbAyWuyCOLWf5zqu_7TQmpEvYHja-aVtyfuMMRuSQwBufdak5JO6/s1600/2019-06-05x.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__4ss86CAoPSjYuvLQbAyLuYtfxBzrY0wKw57JQ9zPGCTeLqZZibmKBOOuuKOVIa5x-R6knJ5gdog-Xur2S_UWg5ZhbAyWuyCOLWf5zqu_7TQmpEvYHja-aVtyfuMMRuSQwBufdak5JO6/s320/2019-06-05x.jpg" /></a></center>Fuite en Eqypte. Sculpture. By Michel Quéré. Guimiliau.</center><center><span style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBBvrLgJeR-ml4E4gbkLZbBTipmGw-wnHhmXW6N0UGSpFzP6k6D3mYG3YyTpl66ErL7-8dsB8RyIRL65CJulF7asBbAedHiUWt3xUC3e8A5TRtnE7hdghi3a7kmTAjN-zGbpNdDrOx3pA/s1600/2019-06-05ya.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBBvrLgJeR-ml4E4gbkLZbBTipmGw-wnHhmXW6N0UGSpFzP6k6D3mYG3YyTpl66ErL7-8dsB8RyIRL65CJulF7asBbAedHiUWt3xUC3e8A5TRtnE7hdghi3a7kmTAjN-zGbpNdDrOx3pA/s400/2019-06-05ya.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Calvary. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZpQgYFIGUZHBb0dlLVlor-ZHyGRtUPcZ41bcEscrFsKbZNZF0TRLdU_-kClEeiTOWImUPqqZnT8z88d7G3el5ubySa7OfMcE0GSKlEILlDMkD7xtn7z34GyvgGaVfsL4ti05v68f8aFz1/s1600/2019-06-05yb.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZpQgYFIGUZHBb0dlLVlor-ZHyGRtUPcZ41bcEscrFsKbZNZF0TRLdU_-kClEeiTOWImUPqqZnT8z88d7G3el5ubySa7OfMcE0GSKlEILlDMkD7xtn7z34GyvgGaVfsL4ti05v68f8aFz1/s400/2019-06-05yb.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Enclos. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwCvGayJlgUJh6y4hAZ1IKLnN-JH04ug2ySMkkc8s-OFEaWaMHZ3XGZ0lc1xSXrv8d_IymeQh3GRcvHucUDJmd3W_Ypn31ighboWj81uTFThfcCx7PRerUEfTUZ71m90XTW2n6HJvFUNN/s1600/2019-06-05yc.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwCvGayJlgUJh6y4hAZ1IKLnN-JH04ug2ySMkkc8s-OFEaWaMHZ3XGZ0lc1xSXrv8d_IymeQh3GRcvHucUDJmd3W_Ypn31ighboWj81uTFThfcCx7PRerUEfTUZ71m90XTW2n6HJvFUNN/s320/2019-06-05yc.jpg" /></a></center>Ossuary. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOrQW8ko9xZ9wuJzd0pvPB8hD0gt-x9-r-uDjYlb98NU-91f2V12_KEpaABkuWYQwkY0Yf8X_JIOygDKeB5htaTMryPBsym9bc-KJazRb8s98hZHqpKStlx_zfcx9ldRXD2lNoZP9148mw/s1600/2019-06-05yd.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOrQW8ko9xZ9wuJzd0pvPB8hD0gt-x9-r-uDjYlb98NU-91f2V12_KEpaABkuWYQwkY0Yf8X_JIOygDKeB5htaTMryPBsym9bc-KJazRb8s98hZHqpKStlx_zfcx9ldRXD2lNoZP9148mw/s320/2019-06-05yd.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Reredos. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDFCuu3sY89aHUjycBJ8HysYOxwsadwUTV7IG_9eDImnOJfGbW7S4inHLxtMHIkG7kFQKeNKcsbjyOVOmzbElAzYvnh5NHgZ_wSD1UkmFZO1LWRTFVgwxWGJpD8d5eZfVIE3oUwHFbr9u/s1600/2019-06-05ye.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDFCuu3sY89aHUjycBJ8HysYOxwsadwUTV7IG_9eDImnOJfGbW7S4inHLxtMHIkG7kFQKeNKcsbjyOVOmzbElAzYvnh5NHgZ_wSD1UkmFZO1LWRTFVgwxWGJpD8d5eZfVIE3oUwHFbr9u/s320/2019-06-05ye.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Reredos. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DEpxeIJ1NxQJSNt4aYis7mWP9wG2PFG1G3UAmXtEMcvQFv2UPMeqH_7TdQ3b16b8Sptllg7HrPBl7D9RbVPZLIrYcguaf-TVYf-3ZpF0o-U8T1-zp6URS06qON_7cTvyP4JqzzbzZkhE/s1600/2019-06-05yf.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DEpxeIJ1NxQJSNt4aYis7mWP9wG2PFG1G3UAmXtEMcvQFv2UPMeqH_7TdQ3b16b8Sptllg7HrPBl7D9RbVPZLIrYcguaf-TVYf-3ZpF0o-U8T1-zp6URS06qON_7cTvyP4JqzzbzZkhE/s400/2019-06-05yf.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Saint Pol-de-Leon. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARNwUppeG4SmvuhWEEMQOlYPB9r_mDXNdHy_YSQ2Y3fj6MPXx97_iSFkQ5_CXU0z63v2-KoVty3UlGG8o-3cXC03TOWSpADz-Eq0gLEw2SDeX5-zOsXrkIQZzAYH4g3btfydHnbbO3gT3/s1600/2019-06-05yg.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARNwUppeG4SmvuhWEEMQOlYPB9r_mDXNdHy_YSQ2Y3fj6MPXx97_iSFkQ5_CXU0z63v2-KoVty3UlGG8o-3cXC03TOWSpADz-Eq0gLEw2SDeX5-zOsXrkIQZzAYH4g3btfydHnbbO3gT3/s320/2019-06-05yg.jpg" /></a></center>Church. Expulsion from Eden. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBPfRhd-nrc8eAU6LgceFZ_vvpRQaL7cMsMrdZxxLbTCbWWXAljhNACxN8XrIoNkeXdCA2Qgdh0EFOdI2BBWBbVSJ3UcGsXrSoS6I1zItP9p-5swQk1xAxRA1z7I0EplWvtV5FfquxaTj/s1600/2019-06-05yh.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBPfRhd-nrc8eAU6LgceFZ_vvpRQaL7cMsMrdZxxLbTCbWWXAljhNACxN8XrIoNkeXdCA2Qgdh0EFOdI2BBWBbVSJ3UcGsXrSoS6I1zItP9p-5swQk1xAxRA1z7I0EplWvtV5FfquxaTj/s320/2019-06-05yh.jpg" /></a></center>Ossuary. Entombment. Saint-Thégonnec. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">In the late afternoon we visited the island of Rocher Sainte-Anne. On the way across the causeway we noticed a group of rambers who were somewhat out of their depth - the result of placing too much reliance on a sat-nav perhaps. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpEHUvm7kdSGVruzxxwaJP6o5c8ppVYc4WOAKG2COw0ojt3EjSgRj9EWaWKpORRR9Amz6M-SU0UAUapKZHFU-rF7RT0tH8YT93w94k_PZscyui1eWmKgjP9icIuqCRFXdsNh-qORkOpx6/s1600/2019-06-05za.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpEHUvm7kdSGVruzxxwaJP6o5c8ppVYc4WOAKG2COw0ojt3EjSgRj9EWaWKpORRR9Amz6M-SU0UAUapKZHFU-rF7RT0tH8YT93w94k_PZscyui1eWmKgjP9icIuqCRFXdsNh-qORkOpx6/s320/2019-06-05za.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Saint-Pol-de-Léon.</center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToPcB-uV5Pil2SNa_NhRmXUMPWs5lJAePufwOd6UV3BpGgf0xL0BNjJ95MKTW9HuplG1a4NBXgbz4uAdhP84AqRMnEtd7cLnCzBUbOeQ9yHnUUqgZZn1tnMmlvrNLHw3rtBcH1fCek8ek/s1600/2019-06-05zc.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgToPcB-uV5Pil2SNa_NhRmXUMPWs5lJAePufwOd6UV3BpGgf0xL0BNjJ95MKTW9HuplG1a4NBXgbz4uAdhP84AqRMnEtd7cLnCzBUbOeQ9yHnUUqgZZn1tnMmlvrNLHw3rtBcH1fCek8ek/s320/2019-06-05zc.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYd0M60Xv-entPXuh6ikKYkekz4Cfuum0EMdkL3rrYdzAaN4XYqg2jPCdoZnUY33b7bhnoOuirFcLDbnshs2PBOtcOElBIYKQNbGV279NRVI9KyrrvkaEcXs80Uz3whaJwHxiCM0J-Iy33/s1600/2019-06-05zd.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYd0M60Xv-entPXuh6ikKYkekz4Cfuum0EMdkL3rrYdzAaN4XYqg2jPCdoZnUY33b7bhnoOuirFcLDbnshs2PBOtcOElBIYKQNbGV279NRVI9KyrrvkaEcXs80Uz3whaJwHxiCM0J-Iy33/s320/2019-06-05zd.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiWzUb16-3VIOi_YTYPx-t0BbStoCyq9jy2Tqo4jr5neV2Zcyr82VfoifqmLojGlwCL-gOn9PL8RHiYuEnML7sGCy7E3CN4Y2BYdXZrckIlAw0bhL2RF0W7DSlKk7OXgclZg_lNcCPb1aV/s1600/2019-06-05ze.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiWzUb16-3VIOi_YTYPx-t0BbStoCyq9jy2Tqo4jr5neV2Zcyr82VfoifqmLojGlwCL-gOn9PL8RHiYuEnML7sGCy7E3CN4Y2BYdXZrckIlAw0bhL2RF0W7DSlKk7OXgclZg_lNcCPb1aV/s320/2019-06-05ze.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center>The third calvary in the classic enclos triangle is at Saint-Thégonnec.<br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWgFeWKXEQ5s6br6_1HNmJoVeOwi6_7aURli83RNBuSvl2yblIkS0PJ4FiMl2uzE5fzcoOLjs6sxJd7ryTrlzQJ8enwFy-80ZFcZQXxMFWO_wdzODWTg5qG1D3PEAuTuUKayFAi7R_eD5/s1600/2019-06-05zf.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWgFeWKXEQ5s6br6_1HNmJoVeOwi6_7aURli83RNBuSvl2yblIkS0PJ4FiMl2uzE5fzcoOLjs6sxJd7ryTrlzQJ8enwFy-80ZFcZQXxMFWO_wdzODWTg5qG1D3PEAuTuUKayFAi7R_eD5/s320/2019-06-05zf.jpg" /></a></center>Rocher Sainte-Anne. Island. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Thursday 6 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">To Roscoff to buy tickets for Sunday 9th ferry after problems with website. Genevieve sent reports of watching d-Day commemorations:</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;">Les grandes commémorations du débarquement ont commencé hier à Portsmouth et aujourd'hui c'est en Normandie. Il y a, comme d'habitude beaucoup de cérémonies dans les cimetières, au Mémorial, et beaucoup de vétérans, anglais, américains, français aussi et énormement de "touristes", y compris des belges et hollandais.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;">Aujourd'hui jeudi, impossible de circuler à Caen et sur le périphérique, la vie est arrêtée dans la ville, les magasins sont fermés, et les caennais sont invités à ne pas aller travailler ... mais les écoles ne sont pas fermées, pourtant le trafic des bus est ralenti. </center><center style="text-align: justify;">Il faut dire que Trump et Macron déjeunent à la préfecture et un autre grand repas est prévu au Mémorial avec les autres chefs d'Etat (dont Teresa May qui ne démissionnera que demain de son poste).</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;">On entend les hélicoptères (certains passent au dessus de mon jardin pour rejoindre le mémorial), les voitures de police, les sirènes , etc. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;">Et c'est ainsi depuis 3 semaines, un tel événement suppose évidemment beaucoup de préparatifs, surtout avec la venue de Trump qui, depuis son arrivée, ne cesse de dire des choses désagréables (même aux anglais). Il est évident qu'il vient ici pour son image électorale plus que pour promouvoir la paix et saluer les combattants.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;">Hier, j'ai regardé les cérémonies à Portsmouth, c'était très bien et les vétérans étaient vraiment à l'honneur et ont eu l'occasion d'exprimer leurs souvenirs et leurs émotions en rendant hommage à leurs compagnons tombés au combat. La Reine était là dans un délicieux tailleur rose (ainsi que le chapeau) et Téresa May en tailleur vert clair avec un chapeau chic, plus prévu pour une tenue de soirée que pour une telle cérémonie (cela m'a paru étrange) parmi tous les hommes en costume sombre ou en tenue militaire. Exception faite d'Angela Merkel serrée dans une de ses innombrables vestes - toujours un peu les mêmes - et sans chapeau. J'ai ri toute seule en essayant de l'imaginer dans les tailleurs rose et vert avec chapeau de cérémonie ... Non vraiment impossible de l'imaginer .... Il faudrait que vous regardiez les photos de cette cérémonie, à moins que vous ne l'ayez déjà fait, ce qui serait bien possible.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;">Le propos de la Reine était très court, mais très bien, tous les journaux ce matin en font l'éloge. Vive les Anglais!</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We can add that the French reports of the ceremonies we have seen were very moving, so many veterans, mostly in their nineties, gathered together for the last time. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;">On our way westwards we stopped at Kerfissen, a remote headland surrounded by rocks and with a kiln for burning kelp (vraic in the Channel Islands) surrounded by flowers near the water's edge. These kilns were generally built on headlands exposed to the winds and were used to burn the kelp. This was usually done between May and October and the operation lasted an entire day, giving off a yellowish smoke. The end product was blocks of soda from which iodine could be extracted for pharmaceutical use. Five tonnes of green seaweed were needed to produce one tonne of dry vraic and five tonnes of vraic were needed to produce one ton of soda from which the factory could extract 5 to 15 Kg of iodine. The kilns were in the form of a trench about 10 meters long, 50 cm wide and 50cm deep divided into 20 compartments by stone slabs so that the blocks of soda, each of which weighed about 100 Kg could be extracted. It was in use until 1955 when the local factory closed. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPX0OGQqLI9SwqslG0Hu81NMdlsTzZLVKhyphenhyphen1Si_YRpXTOdoMyvJrzMF3NWKKuMiHn3hgWy9F8WWTEETRaotmoOhwcjMV9HMPtZ_TqMxD_9CNJ7Ap5Qnuby5-5mjLKMBPQMSZvi1FLbItDz/s1600/2019-06-06a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPX0OGQqLI9SwqslG0Hu81NMdlsTzZLVKhyphenhyphen1Si_YRpXTOdoMyvJrzMF3NWKKuMiHn3hgWy9F8WWTEETRaotmoOhwcjMV9HMPtZ_TqMxD_9CNJ7Ap5Qnuby5-5mjLKMBPQMSZvi1FLbItDz/s320/2019-06-06a.jpg" /></a></center>Coastal view. Kerfissien. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg1aOcaZI7FlGwwBpy0d8Cn9t_oGYwlCIfsAmOUy9ym8pc5plPFFYEUxTHr1_KpMoaabXilR8rbblRSBkaMuJjgw5TwznwOdKPyv5B8pf89Kdv33uLYWvHxyH8veGMgr2AZV4df0QZCWyc/s1600/2019-06-06b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg1aOcaZI7FlGwwBpy0d8Cn9t_oGYwlCIfsAmOUy9ym8pc5plPFFYEUxTHr1_KpMoaabXilR8rbblRSBkaMuJjgw5TwznwOdKPyv5B8pf89Kdv33uLYWvHxyH8veGMgr2AZV4df0QZCWyc/s320/2019-06-06b.jpg" /></a></center>Vrac kiln. Kerfissien. </center><center><center><br />
</center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix6SZ56oBMT9Dc9UQuh9cueHluHFY1-q2AsojudK2a3bGjrypeLfTg8cxo8L4yp0JoHHsLJcxSTj2i20Z4CVe2Vxfnq0rZgMkpsqW0GrL6TWJZFkgZz03IS58lLJ5Jj6pXTUbT9awctYmF/s1600/2019-06-06d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix6SZ56oBMT9Dc9UQuh9cueHluHFY1-q2AsojudK2a3bGjrypeLfTg8cxo8L4yp0JoHHsLJcxSTj2i20Z4CVe2Vxfnq0rZgMkpsqW0GrL6TWJZFkgZz03IS58lLJ5Jj6pXTUbT9awctYmF/s320/2019-06-06d.jpg" /></a></center>Wild flowers. Kerfissien. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdWB1s4BpU0aXOY1k9NSO2f37jhOJc1NRjClmWM9vnz94Rf7Firw-VzZIKs-8HHUxsk9AoGBPMDGqIS0_8LwH0blqT9Na2pKO8yU4gfVaI4gal87JhUluotEqe12mCa_DbyiOpCXw1EYYf/s1600/2019-06-06e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdWB1s4BpU0aXOY1k9NSO2f37jhOJc1NRjClmWM9vnz94Rf7Firw-VzZIKs-8HHUxsk9AoGBPMDGqIS0_8LwH0blqT9Na2pKO8yU4gfVaI4gal87JhUluotEqe12mCa_DbyiOpCXw1EYYf/s320/2019-06-06e.jpg" /></a></center>Thrift. Kerfissien. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">Just before Guissény lies Plouescat where we stopped to look at the recently restored market hall.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHExU79UUWxeTEGoVLxwbfNbvaRwmx9Gz-Qmr4tlza17PmHylSiw9ZeMKwwx3VHl2PQmoubZ6rQCfih8-9SV6itXl8ltYY-YnTcIhMSZ-UmB44Te-dPthIJn46vZ4_dOTLfE9P493_I2HY/s1600/2019-06-06f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHExU79UUWxeTEGoVLxwbfNbvaRwmx9Gz-Qmr4tlza17PmHylSiw9ZeMKwwx3VHl2PQmoubZ6rQCfih8-9SV6itXl8ltYY-YnTcIhMSZ-UmB44Te-dPthIJn46vZ4_dOTLfE9P493_I2HY/s320/2019-06-06f.jpg" /></a></center>Market hall. Plouescat. </center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Friday 7 June 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">Overnight at Camping Le Vougot near Guisseny started to rain heavily and continuously. Woke to find ourselves surrounded by puddles of water. Waited for it to stop but about 11.30 managed to get Modestine under way. Able to email Joel who told us to come this evening. No point in exploring the beautiful coastline. Made for the LeClerc in Le Folguët, cafeteria and shopping for return and contribution towards our time with Joel. Joel had an appointment to play his bagpipes at a friend's house this evening. On arrival when demonstrating how to use the television while he was away Joel, a keen fisherman, was stunned to learn that three lifeboat men had lost their lives off Sables-d'Olonne as a result of storm Miguel, the worst summer storm for forty years. Like the RNLI the SNSM in France is funded by donations and run by volunteers - latter-day heroes 75 years on. </center><div><br />
</div><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCeoXejrtkK3qCy_ezol6gO77nFCPAiPRutzC1NXHPEqhblXl5ikJwe-uHHgaaYiq8EwXmUdWDjbrTi5S2ZCja2trS0LKvKaOQZTn6zoMXTuIoGA3ARUz-mVRVets0GsyN-GAaYP7b_8ou/s1600/2019-06-07b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCeoXejrtkK3qCy_ezol6gO77nFCPAiPRutzC1NXHPEqhblXl5ikJwe-uHHgaaYiq8EwXmUdWDjbrTi5S2ZCja2trS0LKvKaOQZTn6zoMXTuIoGA3ARUz-mVRVets0GsyN-GAaYP7b_8ou/s320/2019-06-07b.jpg" /></a></center><center></center>Lifeboats. Disaster report. Guissény. </center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</b><b style="text-align: justify;">Saturday 8 June 2019</b></div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQz_kEIGBLQhydvlc3291Amvv4CM_DbIBACYvrt6KUtMH2uHpyQTI0NE3uINpoEubB0VyLXocVuCbRyxBc6zMV1P66WUpjNDXWEIC0jchBK75HxsMjdYv7ed1vrlqMvS20fjoDD7Zsm4M9/s1600/2019-06-07a.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQz_kEIGBLQhydvlc3291Amvv4CM_DbIBACYvrt6KUtMH2uHpyQTI0NE3uINpoEubB0VyLXocVuCbRyxBc6zMV1P66WUpjNDXWEIC0jchBK75HxsMjdYv7ed1vrlqMvS20fjoDD7Zsm4M9/s400/2019-06-07a.jpg" width="294" /></a></center><center>Corbin. Wine label. Guissény.</center><center> </center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYKDGDoPwoCTudyRUQodKiGnZSFsUI7zxcTPuCkROwZxfzSxxtOibvJ7Xlb0Bid2JBdfcGYZ3SwEz_-x_xodOp9AqSFd6thNKhXjxp16_HHA4sIj7CfLdXAQY2Fha-lU7COhQlaP0qWRA/s1600/2019-06-08a.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYKDGDoPwoCTudyRUQodKiGnZSFsUI7zxcTPuCkROwZxfzSxxtOibvJ7Xlb0Bid2JBdfcGYZ3SwEz_-x_xodOp9AqSFd6thNKhXjxp16_HHA4sIj7CfLdXAQY2Fha-lU7COhQlaP0qWRA/s400/2019-06-08a.jpg" width="296" /></a></center>Seny. Saint. Legend. Text. Guissény. </center><center><br />
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Visited Emanuel on way to port. Recently returned from taking school trip to England. This time found more xenophobia than on previous visits, V signs and hostile looks, For first time refused entry to a pub - could be bouncers advising that customers drunk and could cause trouble.</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7qwTzr5kXygow8T_JtdkJfLlRDMWOFEacYMLFpSP62dzjqEY2ojb9NbOcfNVwIPVhqlwDLyfe2Z4ZBUgFaKSQR33spcFDTekybaBjOLuqs9gthZfryzCgvG62_d7enEIUCaR-c08HOBk/s1600/2019-06-09a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7qwTzr5kXygow8T_JtdkJfLlRDMWOFEacYMLFpSP62dzjqEY2ojb9NbOcfNVwIPVhqlwDLyfe2Z4ZBUgFaKSQR33spcFDTekybaBjOLuqs9gthZfryzCgvG62_d7enEIUCaR-c08HOBk/s320/2019-06-09a.jpg" /></a></center>Emmanuel. Teacher. Saint-Pol-de-Léon. </center><center><br />
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<b>Tuesday 28 May 2019</b></center>
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Heading for the Ile de Re, we stopped at the harbour of Fouras to investigate an impressive fort by the water's edge. </center>
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Fort. Fouras. </center>
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We continued to La Flotte, the first town on the north coast of the island. It had among it local worthies Nicolas Martiau (1591–1657) who emigrated to the English colony of Virginia, arriving in Jamestown in 1620 after having taken refuge as a Huguenot in England by 1617. He is an ancestor of the first American president, George Washington.</center>
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Harbour. Ile-de-Ré. La Flotte. </center>
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Martiau, Nicolas. Emigrant to New England. Ile-de-Ré. La Flotte. </center>
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Today we made our way to the far end of the island, beyond the parts that most visitors reach - the little town of Les Portes-en-Ré. </center>
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Our next stop was the capital of the island St Martin-de-Ré. Set around a pictureque harbour with bridges across to the old town located on an island, it was absolutely packed.</center>
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We decided, reluctantly, to leave Ile de Re - the little island was just too crowded with reckless drivers (especially a hair-brained Swiss driver). We were also held up by the rider of a penny-farthing bicycle! In one village we saw the aftermath of a serious accident - two cars and emergency vehicles with stretcher bearers. We found a campsite at Chaillé-les-Marais in the middle of the Marais Poitevin in the Vendée. There was excellent wifi at last! </center>
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Ascension Day today, yet another public holiday in France when we could expect heavy traffic. We strolled round the little village and were attracted by the village with a revolutionary name Village de l'An VII. As it adjoined Chaillé-les-Marais we decided to seek it out. It made a peaceful stroll with houses stretched along the street between a canal and inland limestone cliffs and beautiful gardens with flowers in bloom. We walked out along the road and back along the clifftop. </center>
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We drove northwards through coastal sprawl turning inland sometimes across the Marais. The first campsite was closed so we continued north and eventually managed to bag the last place in La Courance. Here devout Frenchmen were making a hell of a racket on this holy day with the rituals of boules, barbecues and boisterous banter. Wifi was once again a fruitless struggle. </center>
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Clairac looked attractive as we crossed the River Lot so we decided to explore. We were serenaded by <i>commedia del arte</i> characters in the middle of the road and we realised that there was an Italian market in town. We bought a jar of artichokes in olive oil and after a coffee explored the half-timbered houses in the town, finishing with an ice cream in a quiet square.</center>
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In Marmande we parked by the cemetery and walked in to the town which we were curious to see being the area where our trusty standy-by, "Vieille Eglise" wine, originates. The helpful tourist office gave us details of campsites and a trail round the old town which we dutifully followed. </center>
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There was a good selection of posters for the European elections here, so we have gathered together at this point various fringe examples of the 34 parties on the French list for European elections. Among them was the Union Populaire Republicaine, the Frexit party, wanting to leave the EU, the Euro and NATO. There is no mention of the Council of Europe which has also been ignored in the Brexit negotiations in Britain, although it also has a considerable influence on local legislation. </center>
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Union Populaire Republicaine. European election poster. Lourdes.<br />
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Union Populaire Republicaine. European election poster. [also in Lourdes] Marmande. </center>
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Parti Animaliste. European election poster. Marmande. </center>
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Europe Democratie esperanto. European election poster. Marmande. </center>
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Alliance Jaune. European election poster. Marmande. </center>
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Union de la Droite et du Centre. European election poster. Marmande. </center>
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Alliance Ecologique Independante. European election poster. Marmande. </center>
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Europe et Rien. European election poster. Monségur.</center>
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Urgence ecologie. European election poster. Monségur.</center>
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We visited the Tour du Passeur, built in the 14th century and modified on into the 18th. It was perched on the town walls, below which we explored the secluded Jardin des Sources with its fountain and lavoir. </center>
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Tour du Passeur. Marmande. </center>
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Jardin des sources. Marmande. </center>
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The Rue Labat was the oldest street in town, lined with half-timbered houses. The Neuf Fontaines, arranged in a crescent, reminded us of the Hétforrás (Seven Springs) near Koszeg - a spring with seven spouts, bearing the names of the seven Hungarian chieftains from the age of conquest in the 9th century. </center>
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Rue Labat. Marmande. </center>
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Neuf Fontaines. Marmande. </center>
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We ended our tour in the peaceful cloister gardens of the church of Notre-Dame which has been officially designated a "jardin remarquable".</center>
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Notre-Dame Cloister garden. Marmande. </center>
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Notre-Dame Cloister garden. Marmande.</center>
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Camping au Jardin this evening cost only 12 Euros but was one of the best campsites so far. We had a beer in the bar by the canal, and took a walk along the canal. The crews of two English boats joined up for a barbecue and everything looked very congenial. </center>
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Canal de Garonne. Canal port. Meilhan-sur-Garonne.<br />
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River Garonne (left), towpath and canal (right). Meilhan-sur-Garonne. </div>
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The church at Couthures-sur-Garonne was swept away twice by floods and rebuilt, most recently in neo-romanesque style in the early 19th century, advised by the ubiquitous Viollet Le Duc.</center>
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The flood markers at Couthures-sur-Garonne stood outside Les Gens de Garonne, an ambitious interpretation centre in the little village with a shop, displays, cafe, video presentations - more than a million Euros had been spent jointly by the commune, department and region. It was open today but unused. </center>
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Jessica prefers Monségur to Duras which she says is moribund. We find it an attractive bastide town with grassy ramparts overlooking the plains and a market square completely filled with a building by Eiffel festooned with more silly election posters. Jessica pointed out many shops that had changed hands and closed over the 40 years she has lived here. Useful shops like butchers and ironmongers have gone, replaced by hypermarkets on the outskirts of town, conveniently located by road junctions to serve the surrounding communes. She told us that many of the large timber barns with slatted walls were sechoirs - drying-sheds for tobacco - now no longer used as the tobacco crop had ceased to be of any importance. </center>
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We left Jessica and Taillecavat next morning, (Thank you so much for your hospitality Jess, it was wonderful to take a reality check with a friend from home!) We travelled westward to meet the Gironde Estuary at Vitrezey. At St Thomas de Conac we found a pretentious campsite with kitsch statues, columns and fountains for the night. </center>
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We headed along the coast to the peaceful little harbour at Port-Maubert with wide views across the largest estuary in Europe. There we watched a school class having sailing lessons. </center>
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The entrance to our campsite was just opposite the start of the causeway to the Ile-Madame. This is an island which, like Lindisfarne, is cut off at high tide. We had been there in Modestine but, as there was nothing to do on the island but follow the one-way road and return we contented ourselves with watching vehicles making the stony crossing and looking across the waters to Fouras. </center>
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There was also a pilgrimage site nearby, decorated with murals in memory of the priests who refused to take the oath to the civil constitution of the clergy voted by the National Assembly in 1792. No fewer than 829 priests, mainly from dioceses in northern France were imprisoned on two slave ships at Rochefort from April 1794. They were destined for Guyane (French Guiana) but in the crowded and unhealthy conditions a typhoid epidemic broke out. In August 1794 they were disembarked into a tented hospital on the Ile Madame where 254 priests died within two months. Of the survivors 310 were returned to the ships to spend the dreadful winter of 1794-1795. Transferred to Saintes in February 1795 they were finally freed and returned to their parishes, but not before 574 priests out of the original 829 had died. </div>
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Persecution of priests. 1794. Memorial. Port-des-Barques.</center>
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Persecution of priests. 1794. Memorial. Port-des-Barques.</center>
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Persecution of priests. 1794. Memorial. Port-des-Barques. </center>
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In the campsite at Port-des-Barques Ian went in quest of half hour free internet and moved a chair onto the grass close by the wifi point. There he was charged twice by a youth on a motor scooter, driving up and braking violently at the last moment. He noted his number-plate and chased him away. He reported it to the campsite who said they were sometimes troubled by gitanes but this was a local youth. He would report it to his policeman friend who would have a word with the parents. </center>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-55710020545574928472019-10-20T08:20:00.000-07:002019-10-20T08:20:17.666-07:00With Friends in the Bearn<b style="text-align: justify;">Sunday 19 May 2019</b><br />
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</center><center></center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">We had made our way to the Béarn to meet up again with Ian's school friend John, now settled in a beautiful house deep in the countryside not far from Orthez, the town where he had worked as an assistant for a year back in the 1960s while studying modern languages at Oxford. Now retired after a career teaching French at secondary school, he and Alison were keen to show us his old haunts. Orthez is a town famous for its medieval bridge. We had visited it before but John was able to show us details we had missed, for example the towers on the bridge pitted with musket bullets fired by Wellington's troops during the Peninsula War. We saw the town museum, once the home of Jeanne d'Albret with the area refurbished since our last visit. </center><div><br />
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</center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: justify;">We climbed up past the school where John used to teach - not one of the more picturesque sights, it must be said - and reached the Tour Moncade, the remains of a castle which once dominated the town. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">Then back home for dinner and much reminiscing and catching up on friends. We wondered which of the old Colfeians had achieved most satisfaction in life and rather dodged the issue by selecting their Latin teacher, Ron. John had cut out an article by one of his successors at Colfe's School with him in mind. Ian forgot to pass it on but perhaps you can read it now, Ron. </center><center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">During the war the school was evacuated from Lewisham to Tunbridge Wells, one of the places where John used to teach.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"> </center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihGBCZQ1EUguETrslkrKteh1qAqVL5aX2HkOoBuyBSvHKrWMQgGIBYIjt2DfQSjXvUDO5ieOI1XQRMVKhBfy3B7ok_gmOqWOaPWATBu_WiMAuWbjuxl8QdElD10Agw09jBzjdDcxx3u603/s1600/2019-05-19e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihGBCZQ1EUguETrslkrKteh1qAqVL5aX2HkOoBuyBSvHKrWMQgGIBYIjt2DfQSjXvUDO5ieOI1XQRMVKhBfy3B7ok_gmOqWOaPWATBu_WiMAuWbjuxl8QdElD10Agw09jBzjdDcxx3u603/s320/2019-05-19e.jpg" /></a></center>Colfe's School evacuees. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: justify;">We also had the opportunity to admire John and Alison's lovely house and garden - perhaps something of a mixed blessing as it cannot be left for long periods; it would become a jungle in their absence. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpCunMsr3G-8cjtfvnoGHjDxn1uB5fNOoL4scnCd8YRb-VTcdXO1icdeRJpgU8eYZ5DdlQfbD_NqKmSYCDcv9ztwlUiYMPm6P1fKck9YXP0ph2BQSZv9Bpnu8_89sSIkZHWvmoCG0VhuM/s1600/2019-05-20a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpCunMsr3G-8cjtfvnoGHjDxn1uB5fNOoL4scnCd8YRb-VTcdXO1icdeRJpgU8eYZ5DdlQfbD_NqKmSYCDcv9ztwlUiYMPm6P1fKck9YXP0ph2BQSZv9Bpnu8_89sSIkZHWvmoCG0VhuM/s320/2019-05-20a.jpg" /></a></center>John and Alison's Garden. </center><center><br />
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We all went to the nearby village of Laas for lunch. Its signpost reads:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">LAAS</div><div style="text-align: center;">Village fleuri</div><div style="text-align: center;">Village sourire</div><div style="text-align: center;">Village étape des Pelerins</div><div style="text-align: center;">de St Jacques de Compostelle</div><div style="text-align: center;">1er prix de concours</div><div style="text-align: center;">VILLAGE QUE J'AIME</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tourisme en Europe Rurale</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>It is certainly a place with an eccentric mayor who had designated Laas as an independent principality, putting up a customs post at the entrance to the village. There were many inscriptions of a humorous nature around town and a square named after Brigitte Bardot who has acquired a house in the village. </div><center> </center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6X6N-btkEEZgUBTnwmedQ-j6C9mTq0cZCHvIYTq9CLaEsITTEbBAIiw6CyrEhIgUtMwboSfMATKn1IusTKvmjmTEMuzrMTHmeQGWb4EVGicygHy3xc9Eov8O8uDOLlbk-lKKWRUIT9B8F/s1600/2019-05-20e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6X6N-btkEEZgUBTnwmedQ-j6C9mTq0cZCHvIYTq9CLaEsITTEbBAIiw6CyrEhIgUtMwboSfMATKn1IusTKvmjmTEMuzrMTHmeQGWb4EVGicygHy3xc9Eov8O8uDOLlbk-lKKWRUIT9B8F/s320/2019-05-20e.jpg" /></a></center>Entrance. Laas. </center><center><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqE2knNK36sh0vsd16UzpcPf9EBw6xYCqGCxVzxMiWSUiL5gRj8-sFIyNgSlsBEIyEheke4TVcHR27eSSpqoLKy91FI_jhVn8tq-URQVyOuCJSYz05bWktQgrzFZCrgOZL71Sn4IKalvK8/s1600/2019-05-20j.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqE2knNK36sh0vsd16UzpcPf9EBw6xYCqGCxVzxMiWSUiL5gRj8-sFIyNgSlsBEIyEheke4TVcHR27eSSpqoLKy91FI_jhVn8tq-URQVyOuCJSYz05bWktQgrzFZCrgOZL71Sn4IKalvK8/s320/2019-05-20j.jpg" /></a></center>John and Alison at La Fontaine restaurant, Laas.</center><center> </center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: justify;">After an excellent and very reasonably priced lunch we visited the medieval town of Navarrenx. We noticed an English brewery cashing in on the pilgrims that pass through the town. The strange name of the town derives from its position on the edge of Navarre and its border location led to extensive fortifications and military buildings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQgSQeqlWk8dV-qrs_iqPRy4KCLmtT_8_pkF5yyJF1AH2HFheZM4nAVIdZIohKk_HtqOzvbQN1cGysP33FNsGBcKmiThtD91gELr-XNqVCUE6sy-LfY4AHcid5quMEB-rFJgIa2tCX0Yc/s1600/2019-05-20l.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQgSQeqlWk8dV-qrs_iqPRy4KCLmtT_8_pkF5yyJF1AH2HFheZM4nAVIdZIohKk_HtqOzvbQN1cGysP33FNsGBcKmiThtD91gELr-XNqVCUE6sy-LfY4AHcid5quMEB-rFJgIa2tCX0Yc/s320/2019-05-20l.jpg" /></a></center>Gateway. Navarrenx. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8nA4XiIs2XlyNIMi2aVwaehyqe86GsypTJwjcvZX0mNoF2u-8pTCTqoY-PcWjZvmbxUZ81yofDWkaOIMcHD5jT2_MMoxT_sq4mH_MPXIwPBWLPouIjvZeJ5z5CfO4Sctpg88CQXdPpQT/s1600/2019-05-20m.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8nA4XiIs2XlyNIMi2aVwaehyqe86GsypTJwjcvZX0mNoF2u-8pTCTqoY-PcWjZvmbxUZ81yofDWkaOIMcHD5jT2_MMoxT_sq4mH_MPXIwPBWLPouIjvZeJ5z5CfO4Sctpg88CQXdPpQT/s320/2019-05-20m.jpg" /></a></center>Commanderie, Navarrenx. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: justify;">Then back for our last night with John and Alison in their picturesque old house, so full of character and charm.</div><center> </center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7LxI9HHUGqX43GEdzWvT_txc30iHnobyzHzB8To_zE5k0_28EdNBLFMw7cRL98uMcZn6-EFFuV1Zt7KM-XBrxToeib9IWahyphenhyphenpbxyjNyuge2MrwgdWVBzwoVcnhERnddkeb3mFJpl7A1k/s1600/2019-05-20o.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7LxI9HHUGqX43GEdzWvT_txc30iHnobyzHzB8To_zE5k0_28EdNBLFMw7cRL98uMcZn6-EFFuV1Zt7KM-XBrxToeib9IWahyphenhyphenpbxyjNyuge2MrwgdWVBzwoVcnhERnddkeb3mFJpl7A1k/s320/2019-05-20o.jpg" /></a></center><center>The barn and orchard</center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfx9B_0E49VqUXjJq1Je06cgdS5GyoWjfG76FLHvAOpooFOH3pR1R0NH5YYt02qSquYfbsi81naWD4uNRFqpLws2mkjmW-noR2zcB6T9_ce44zcH_6srKRnrDG4u9ZJUO_AVJHL7UDvyr/s1600/2019-05-20p.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfx9B_0E49VqUXjJq1Je06cgdS5GyoWjfG76FLHvAOpooFOH3pR1R0NH5YYt02qSquYfbsi81naWD4uNRFqpLws2mkjmW-noR2zcB6T9_ce44zcH_6srKRnrDG4u9ZJUO_AVJHL7UDvyr/s320/2019-05-20p.jpg" /></a></center></center><center><center style="text-align: center;">Jill and John in the orchard</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tuesday 21 May 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We moved on today after two most enjoyable days, hoping that we will meet up again before too long. Our onward journey took us to Eugenie-les-Bains. We wondered which Eugenie it was named after. It turned out to be none other than Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox y KirkPatrick, 16th Countess of Teba, 15th Marchioness of Ardales (1826-1920). Mercifully she was known simply as Eugénie de Montijo for short and was the last Empress of the French, from 1853 to 1870 as the wife of Emperor Napoleon III.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRhacAwqwA0FWOiT6mFNEMu0vB1zs_H7Oom-5kiAQK34IlwAGjdIrGsfi7zsMlqYFBgdaH-fvYQ8s88VA7Rbd08MnCIfE8MEtBRlfgv7MayJGKwla_C3KdiyoZc_17i22-4mHhk6PGog-/s1600/2019-05-21a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRhacAwqwA0FWOiT6mFNEMu0vB1zs_H7Oom-5kiAQK34IlwAGjdIrGsfi7zsMlqYFBgdaH-fvYQ8s88VA7Rbd08MnCIfE8MEtBRlfgv7MayJGKwla_C3KdiyoZc_17i22-4mHhk6PGog-/s320/2019-05-21a.jpg" /></a></center>Garden. Eugenie-les-Bains. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZ4jQOWSJP9OaSvl_LH5jJvVx-p7m14X4x279-FbndufAedcFkC2pQ2aBwwWlYJvYh_r9oZv_HAnCI6Ga6G3U_sjjdihK_BdxHLGr6CsVbuyB0Ik2j_PliapYCE-u-4SV-Zx2n-EmL9fL/s1600/2019-05-21b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZ4jQOWSJP9OaSvl_LH5jJvVx-p7m14X4x279-FbndufAedcFkC2pQ2aBwwWlYJvYh_r9oZv_HAnCI6Ga6G3U_sjjdihK_BdxHLGr6CsVbuyB0Ik2j_PliapYCE-u-4SV-Zx2n-EmL9fL/s320/2019-05-21b.jpg" /></a></center>Garden. Eugenie-les-Bains. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYjAHkcaABTJ0P_SRVTgg7KVBR6yRtUnUxSkHj2KRZq6x8yymSoto9QqVuoM6SE91u5WMPUZIMqIDyFWg-QJUT0vSPhNFThiV0mIKbz-aCCH5JtMdTFe_UTLJv-DRhqSnvlkkjxy_ArO4/s1600/2019-05-21c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYjAHkcaABTJ0P_SRVTgg7KVBR6yRtUnUxSkHj2KRZq6x8yymSoto9QqVuoM6SE91u5WMPUZIMqIDyFWg-QJUT0vSPhNFThiV0mIKbz-aCCH5JtMdTFe_UTLJv-DRhqSnvlkkjxy_ArO4/s320/2019-05-21c.jpg" /></a></center>Garden. Eugenie-les-Bains. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsvAlyzWJWgia82gWhYh8XPlXfqeSOLeT3SjYQ03JPQrTbLHvWGcNt8gsY64LhLtIfW4XQq81QVZQA5qAvMn1l_j0s-GfH_4gzNDYQKuJtMXiN0ewdn2YL3J3XDGTLomDVKhIOnQhqxyM/s1600/2019-05-21d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsvAlyzWJWgia82gWhYh8XPlXfqeSOLeT3SjYQ03JPQrTbLHvWGcNt8gsY64LhLtIfW4XQq81QVZQA5qAvMn1l_j0s-GfH_4gzNDYQKuJtMXiN0ewdn2YL3J3XDGTLomDVKhIOnQhqxyM/s320/2019-05-21d.jpg" /></a></center>Spa. Eugenie-les-Bains. </center><center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The little spa town was very quiet and perhaps living on its past glories, but it was well maintained and it was pleasant to wander the parks and gardens with the curists. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-kf_Doa6rHsaAmEbDC9NpYr_AdPOmO1uFBh5E0O-13crpjQBmDOwE4BIAKcILdNkIGIeQ05nx2XX3N164Zqflu4wPUZe6pmmBQLy6knuEvRsOCGOaXnC8fvOvvU9w3NG5ccTQ2I3BaJr/s1600/2019-05-21e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-kf_Doa6rHsaAmEbDC9NpYr_AdPOmO1uFBh5E0O-13crpjQBmDOwE4BIAKcILdNkIGIeQ05nx2XX3N164Zqflu4wPUZe6pmmBQLy6knuEvRsOCGOaXnC8fvOvvU9w3NG5ccTQ2I3BaJr/s320/2019-05-21e.jpg" /></a></center>Lily pond. Eugenie-les-Bains. </center><center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
On to Aire-sur-l'Adour which Jill pronounced to be a bit of a dump - but sweltering temperatures did not add to its charms.</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQQdZBKuJDVFvOtPdYABZ82iyBKBqSadEgBeiwXat8hPk00vIpZOJ1Uw05f10EBZBeyzyBoetV05D9jhZ4qDh9tifogmIa1nYqXLVREla3k9CfAmLbTjjFXbeHmgxWRRKFpDCMoqHZ3lT/s1600/2019-05-21f.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQQdZBKuJDVFvOtPdYABZ82iyBKBqSadEgBeiwXat8hPk00vIpZOJ1Uw05f10EBZBeyzyBoetV05D9jhZ4qDh9tifogmIa1nYqXLVREla3k9CfAmLbTjjFXbeHmgxWRRKFpDCMoqHZ3lT/s400/2019-05-21f.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Cathedral. Aire-sur-l'Adour</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52OiSsQxnaOCWozROkU-OCa94Q5ag-P-GDllvwlrZiHFRmDcjwtPB4OTw3hJMhU5VzGNM-XTk0xyReoOrZ72CdZLxYh80nM6og_K1_VN3vzVsxhq04NvP3pRsxEIgcrBWawWDhwbK8-Ul/s1600/2019-05-21g.jpg"><img height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52OiSsQxnaOCWozROkU-OCa94Q5ag-P-GDllvwlrZiHFRmDcjwtPB4OTw3hJMhU5VzGNM-XTk0xyReoOrZ72CdZLxYh80nM6og_K1_VN3vzVsxhq04NvP3pRsxEIgcrBWawWDhwbK8-Ul/s400/2019-05-21g.jpg" width="400" /></a></center>Market. Aire-sur-l'Adour</center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">The campsite at Lalin-Lapajou also proved to be a dump. We had fond memories of our last visit when rabbits peeped into Modestine and a peacock sat on the roof. It was very run down. The water was cut off at 8.00 for works in the village. Gone were the rabbits, peacocks and ostriches; there were just a few smelly goats and scraggy chickens as well as vanloads of tattooed dropouts. </center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wednesday 22 May 2019</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We spent a pleasant morning in Condom, the home of the three musketeers whose statue can be found in a square by the cathedral and we were there on market day, which was held by the cathedral. </div></div><div><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhjDynPg_b7oVnEw8hHAtD-oPtCLc5y9HbeMl014DDGjSZ_J1tAcm3hAEkF421_CQyU2xl3q5RipJhmazxQ5C9v8ZWW6Kk8ksSksavzBaohYc8YNsjcOIhO-liW13Ab0DQk17nRWHHSho/s1600/2019-05-22a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhjDynPg_b7oVnEw8hHAtD-oPtCLc5y9HbeMl014DDGjSZ_J1tAcm3hAEkF421_CQyU2xl3q5RipJhmazxQ5C9v8ZWW6Kk8ksSksavzBaohYc8YNsjcOIhO-liW13Ab0DQk17nRWHHSho/s320/2019-05-22a.jpg" /></a></center>Musketeers. Statue.Condom. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NLO0omWkhfvMwCBaLnxfONXPbcQEzd5REVuTUH5hlJ0VywjNQQLCROtVgHkZ1Hxf_cr8BaJrNiZSkv62_OLlzBfjTT8Z_5p3TWp3pRQPpLPEfzZDJK_c27nBo0jwpv4_WjPFHgvDgIRe/s1600/2019-05-22b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NLO0omWkhfvMwCBaLnxfONXPbcQEzd5REVuTUH5hlJ0VywjNQQLCROtVgHkZ1Hxf_cr8BaJrNiZSkv62_OLlzBfjTT8Z_5p3TWp3pRQPpLPEfzZDJK_c27nBo0jwpv4_WjPFHgvDgIRe/s320/2019-05-22b.jpg" /></a></center>Cathedral. Market. Condom. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: justify;">Our next discovery was Prayssas, an attractive little town with a shady Place de l'Hotel de Ville for a coffee, an charming old church and the grain measures on display near the Hotel de Ville.<br />
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</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX4SRrleLsYLOOfUERnAsexvMHxJlqy5jY63kMn05a7IPEIb42Giby5owS9smWcmOl2EumTlDv6CWzBlPOy5noueeMUPOOeC8xZMoQBo90B_yDamKp5-5AQdGzuagx4uOIPNAAAdXpiLnO/s1600/2019-05-22c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX4SRrleLsYLOOfUERnAsexvMHxJlqy5jY63kMn05a7IPEIb42Giby5owS9smWcmOl2EumTlDv6CWzBlPOy5noueeMUPOOeC8xZMoQBo90B_yDamKp5-5AQdGzuagx4uOIPNAAAdXpiLnO/s320/2019-05-22c.jpg" /></a></center>Place de l'Hotel de Ville. Square. Prayssas. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOYRSC-Y4R8JDc9Er-nZeZ2WQDeGI7t_tL2M_jckH_s0P5QMYBlnETRX3JpaxOtDCq8tTICtHhGO6Z3x1Ub8F_PZi5p2nB7Ii_7lQWd6RSyM6KnggLoQOJBtEjE8ZoBn94HxfIQz3t6u8/s1600/2019-05-22d.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOYRSC-Y4R8JDc9Er-nZeZ2WQDeGI7t_tL2M_jckH_s0P5QMYBlnETRX3JpaxOtDCq8tTICtHhGO6Z3x1Ub8F_PZi5p2nB7Ii_7lQWd6RSyM6KnggLoQOJBtEjE8ZoBn94HxfIQz3t6u8/s400/2019-05-22d.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Church. Prayssas. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivFRJSJ-7vHP9FFtxScSBz7A2n8phfdiO7rGRaovgf6fYTybnXgkr90IJd0n90rRXCWla_77TKrFmDw2jl1W2T82_hT7He-25bTDsPHT9IMOi1YcYLKAr4RTl8uIh6_hLvnzV4JKxBcCi8/s1600/2019-05-22e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivFRJSJ-7vHP9FFtxScSBz7A2n8phfdiO7rGRaovgf6fYTybnXgkr90IJd0n90rRXCWla_77TKrFmDw2jl1W2T82_hT7He-25bTDsPHT9IMOi1YcYLKAr4RTl8uIh6_hLvnzV4JKxBcCi8/s320/2019-05-22e.jpg" /></a></center>Grain measures. Prayssas. </center><center><br />
</center><center></center><center style="text-align: justify;">Mercifully the campsite at Pujol proved to be way better than the previous night.</center>Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-50785956157737788092019-10-20T07:19:00.000-07:002019-10-20T08:19:19.883-07:00Foix and Lourdes<b>Thursday 16 May 2019</b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">We left Ambre going west toward the Béarn. Shortly before Carcasonne we stopped at Puichéric, an old workaday village with washing drying in front of houses. Like most villages it had its castle as well as a massive fortified church growing out of the rock. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73c-rGhbmL0edZD_JGovPu35O5qLFx7ChjfLohOWy-VIqVq8KTHMWR7_4X6AKfeOMjC6hOWtTqHLYTofTv2qN7nq5J6WseEoqewFC0pg-65Lo16WSx2S5aCLsyzb0R34Jbhj-CODhqKis/s1600/2019-05-16a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73c-rGhbmL0edZD_JGovPu35O5qLFx7ChjfLohOWy-VIqVq8KTHMWR7_4X6AKfeOMjC6hOWtTqHLYTofTv2qN7nq5J6WseEoqewFC0pg-65Lo16WSx2S5aCLsyzb0R34Jbhj-CODhqKis/s320/2019-05-16a.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Church. Puichéric.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORlvRCGiztb8WtR2f2Om0WEqbGvpVgyg43kPEMvWe_NC-7Wt0dWsdb01RiYJctFL4p9dqX88lXtdVcQ6owkVOTT58bqgHst4Yxaw59-NErPyTF3BP_tjCOpVrmjei1wog3zCyW2oT21ya/s1600/2019-05-16b.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORlvRCGiztb8WtR2f2Om0WEqbGvpVgyg43kPEMvWe_NC-7Wt0dWsdb01RiYJctFL4p9dqX88lXtdVcQ6owkVOTT58bqgHst4Yxaw59-NErPyTF3BP_tjCOpVrmjei1wog3zCyW2oT21ya/s400/2019-05-16b.jpg" width="300" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Church. Puichéric.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We found a delightfully peaceful campsite at Montgaillard just south of Foix beneath the Pain de Sucre rocky outcrop. A wooden bridge over a leat invited into what appeared to be a private garden, open for the public to use, with dovecotes in a fenced-off area by the house. There was an attractive church in the village but no hoped for bar so we had to make do with wine outside Modestine. The campsite dog had learned that visitors recoiled at throwing saliva covered stones for him to catch, so he had learned to place them carefully on our feet so that we could kick them.<br />
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</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAUMIM8PjBD7ESJY-JYcJjulMCB31ALGnAEeOoUmqQPOBKan7r-D1avqOmlGq-iy1LO74MAD1xj1TGuenzemSHXMkfCEVT1Y41dDK7kJBh6uaP2uF5N2m76ly6GtzuhnkfVJXJW-VWaJ53/s1600/2019-05-16c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAUMIM8PjBD7ESJY-JYcJjulMCB31ALGnAEeOoUmqQPOBKan7r-D1avqOmlGq-iy1LO74MAD1xj1TGuenzemSHXMkfCEVT1Y41dDK7kJBh6uaP2uF5N2m76ly6GtzuhnkfVJXJW-VWaJ53/s320/2019-05-16c.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Dovecotes. Montgaillard.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHQSk9NGcRBI0W66qZ1OymHOadvM3nk-zCCoVVVLNIKla7EgeywZg9RD0QOZv4rfL2FsRdv15dxPK-KuyHk43BJ_84J-xVyS10aIDSBbNDrX2f_AoNlrlxl5Y5E-0QS5ilJvCsEdIdtBfb/s1600/2019-05-16d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHQSk9NGcRBI0W66qZ1OymHOadvM3nk-zCCoVVVLNIKla7EgeywZg9RD0QOZv4rfL2FsRdv15dxPK-KuyHk43BJ_84J-xVyS10aIDSBbNDrX2f_AoNlrlxl5Y5E-0QS5ilJvCsEdIdtBfb/s320/2019-05-16d.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;">Church. Montgaillard. </div><center><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Friday 17 May 2019</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our first stop was the town of Foix where the castle of the Counts of Foix dominates the town.<br />
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</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpY2tmgXscF6YwR9wB8OrkhyphenhyphenojIlLQi7fmZSD_-X6jfWpJz1AlfbRB5vV-B800HFgX_5XXDMmwenSyrhxdtBGobgstPY02BumdgU5HC0Ng9dfmjRVQx3sYoblL1zQOV0hiZJxrmYgAi50c/s1600/2019-05-17a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpY2tmgXscF6YwR9wB8OrkhyphenhyphenojIlLQi7fmZSD_-X6jfWpJz1AlfbRB5vV-B800HFgX_5XXDMmwenSyrhxdtBGobgstPY02BumdgU5HC0Ng9dfmjRVQx3sYoblL1zQOV0hiZJxrmYgAi50c/s320/2019-05-17a.jpg" /></a></center>Castle. Foix. </center><center><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">It was market day in Foix with two separate markets, one by the tourist office, one by the abbey.<br />
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</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjguxPb27dzmXtnDBnsexPEzGs_9RCvGW34fhSbqVsjudIiphoK68dE8IRBoKJ9gwB76P9QkkKpFkf1e2306rk8OSP2z42I70fjbSJjRhyEdN9uSUlDgZqo8hjX_ycCy2pmdLrxBjh2sZMW/s1600/2019-05-17b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjguxPb27dzmXtnDBnsexPEzGs_9RCvGW34fhSbqVsjudIiphoK68dE8IRBoKJ9gwB76P9QkkKpFkf1e2306rk8OSP2z42I70fjbSJjRhyEdN9uSUlDgZqo8hjX_ycCy2pmdLrxBjh2sZMW/s320/2019-05-17b.jpg" /></a></center>Market. Foix. </center><center></center><center></center><center><div style="text-align: justify;">The castle was inaccessible as restoration work was taking place but we were able to see the strange troglodyte dwellings built into the cliffs below the ramparts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQfRyO6TGEs9_8jj-IGsuqI9kZTYlLfI05BvQGxfA1QyyqK1jn3arvvL9002CeUeLSw4reu_jEdZbqSMMYDunpmJvClMwMzcrwPgUos550LN1mYhYrK2IrKGSTVrPeEhVPLzaCflju8s2/s1600/2019-05-17c.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQfRyO6TGEs9_8jj-IGsuqI9kZTYlLfI05BvQGxfA1QyyqK1jn3arvvL9002CeUeLSw4reu_jEdZbqSMMYDunpmJvClMwMzcrwPgUos550LN1mYhYrK2IrKGSTVrPeEhVPLzaCflju8s2/s400/2019-05-17c.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Troglodyte dwellings. Foix. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg95ah_UA0szDcE-5oLOh6nVHys05LSf76L6vps-A_07xD6e-6A9dnTzLITpuKkL_mO7bGCwmPAF9VHz2OcLUMo-lgWn4N4hBwGKmU5dCyzONAqRmLU0-LPjOPn_qBKB3VyrwExEkbGr1Zj/s1600/2019-05-17d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg95ah_UA0szDcE-5oLOh6nVHys05LSf76L6vps-A_07xD6e-6A9dnTzLITpuKkL_mO7bGCwmPAF9VHz2OcLUMo-lgWn4N4hBwGKmU5dCyzONAqRmLU0-LPjOPn_qBKB3VyrwExEkbGr1Zj/s320/2019-05-17d.jpg" /></a></center>Troglodyte dwellings. Foix. </center><center></center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;">The abbey was dedicated to yet another saint we had never heard of - in a secular state like France the place is peppered with these obscure holy folk. <span style="background-color: white; color: #330000;">Volusien, the seventh bishop of Tours, was taken to Spain by the Visigoths where he was martyred in 495</span>. The market was held in front of the abbey with municipal police in attendance, although they only kept themselves busy by chatting with the locals. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqJt8FV_ay7I0GpEfR-M7buy3oLe4tgOq2mvRoG3-u_akcCh2yVV7DEeJQRm9YYjkSIXr5nYbIXRNy8cfuj2FXMxGLqPliZj4ZejN1MlpAM5XiYR-snbYw8QKqOhuNHRPtybDqc6YQsbW/s1600/2019-05-17e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqJt8FV_ay7I0GpEfR-M7buy3oLe4tgOq2mvRoG3-u_akcCh2yVV7DEeJQRm9YYjkSIXr5nYbIXRNy8cfuj2FXMxGLqPliZj4ZejN1MlpAM5XiYR-snbYw8QKqOhuNHRPtybDqc6YQsbW/s320/2019-05-17e.jpg" /></a></center>Abbey. Foix. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqHH5qB7P5UIxAFJS_Nuv5qmNUUnoG69YGp25yFq_wY2xZ18pgBmDLIW2jyjEHWOzv6VH-YxZZYjXl19rg57-u6Ty7ykgdRykNe_r2zFL2EBnHCgDDFMhvK8iObNVQzE_hkShGFUrGT5ZR/s1600/2019-05-17f.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqHH5qB7P5UIxAFJS_Nuv5qmNUUnoG69YGp25yFq_wY2xZ18pgBmDLIW2jyjEHWOzv6VH-YxZZYjXl19rg57-u6Ty7ykgdRykNe_r2zFL2EBnHCgDDFMhvK8iObNVQzE_hkShGFUrGT5ZR/s320/2019-05-17f.jpg" /></a></center>Abbey. Foix. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGnIygnktpuUsdsSdIAeP3r8OQEoz0OqhFFbwH5xVzkbqXu6eUBuBpybt9TUfbMgrB2inOx5mqFEVnC8NtFoBX_XvVIXK_0CJSeS9c6cf2SAoqoaHrJtvJE4DG8W3gVLVD0WNogydqoVL/s1600/2019-05-17g.JPG"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGnIygnktpuUsdsSdIAeP3r8OQEoz0OqhFFbwH5xVzkbqXu6eUBuBpybt9TUfbMgrB2inOx5mqFEVnC8NtFoBX_XvVIXK_0CJSeS9c6cf2SAoqoaHrJtvJE4DG8W3gVLVD0WNogydqoVL/s400/2019-05-17g.JPG" width="300" /></a></center>Castle. Foix. </center><center></center><center></center><center><center style="text-align: justify;"><b>Saturday 18 May 2019</b></center><center style="text-align: justify;">Today we reached Lourdes. Largest number of pilgrims anywhere in the world made their way to Lourdes according to our 1970s guide. Presumably this included Mecca - it it still true today? St Bernadette was everywhere. Her photograph was useful for filling windows of empty shops, she featured in a new film, even a musical. There were also many shops selling religious trinkets.</center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT09VrHr8lHvyzq4DjOSQEEU4yWLME05Mtgl_EL-WBV4LUOJWKTiEMaputL2584tvy7gDMIg8nUX34Zk77a_A6NN33odfMI678r5N8HOf7cQPCu-QgoZpw-LJn0TTfTlHeyRPWZ8VzyU6P/s1600/2019-05-18b.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT09VrHr8lHvyzq4DjOSQEEU4yWLME05Mtgl_EL-WBV4LUOJWKTiEMaputL2584tvy7gDMIg8nUX34Zk77a_A6NN33odfMI678r5N8HOf7cQPCu-QgoZpw-LJn0TTfTlHeyRPWZ8VzyU6P/s320/2019-05-18b.jpg" /></a></center>Lourdes. Note the poster for Saint Bernadette, the musical.</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3p7QA1v_IkeceIDkHsL1tf-WRBX-IRzzAW14o9sc8otowBln8QNa5mKLiqHb0arbUoATH__KkPgKMvkHmg43aylIznpTaLVefRiN66PTfpZ09cYjZWaWJSS3uh6RaC2mn8XGiQwAG4EJ4/s1600/2019-05-18c.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3p7QA1v_IkeceIDkHsL1tf-WRBX-IRzzAW14o9sc8otowBln8QNa5mKLiqHb0arbUoATH__KkPgKMvkHmg43aylIznpTaLVefRiN66PTfpZ09cYjZWaWJSS3uh6RaC2mn8XGiQwAG4EJ4/s320/2019-05-18c.jpg" /></a></center>Lourdes.</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5utyYcOpan6PQ8hkm0Fe7gAGbm3Unx8_wDnxLlW6ZthSB5ckWiSF4jhyWVrfiWsbf84_ewkfcP58-0S-uBReKHRokZLai3MHnmmB3rKQlY2w1V0Z2BJmGEniupm-Gy-zMT3ZTNkOwos5f/s1600/2019-05-18d.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5utyYcOpan6PQ8hkm0Fe7gAGbm3Unx8_wDnxLlW6ZthSB5ckWiSF4jhyWVrfiWsbf84_ewkfcP58-0S-uBReKHRokZLai3MHnmmB3rKQlY2w1V0Z2BJmGEniupm-Gy-zMT3ZTNkOwos5f/s320/2019-05-18d.jpg" /></a></center><center>Shops selling religious bits and bobs, Lourdes.</center><center></center><center></center><center style="text-align: justify;">We noticed three men in orange kilts and out of curiosity followed them. Their voices betrayed them as being Irishmen. Soon we saw more and more people dressed in a wide variety of military attire and realised that we had arrived on the day of the Grand International Military Pilgrimage. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwB8hubJZGhZw3wpf7VzEnWxm_zSUTxEvuNLTEcRX89HH0GBMlKMq6pVa4lJVMXE0pIlanXa2AY8Kebg3PSe5fed7ndhvNsrRMtxO1PCzBXCdkHNOk0Qjb0pXweEr6HTtWvAs7TkRRahZg/s1600/2019-05-18a.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwB8hubJZGhZw3wpf7VzEnWxm_zSUTxEvuNLTEcRX89HH0GBMlKMq6pVa4lJVMXE0pIlanXa2AY8Kebg3PSe5fed7ndhvNsrRMtxO1PCzBXCdkHNOk0Qjb0pXweEr6HTtWvAs7TkRRahZg/s320/2019-05-18a.jpg" /></a></center><center>Men in kilts, Lourdes. </center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVhOrOWaVobRXI4-X8gUAHIXa7jhPTTaIkhJgbVGA2KBv6MuWQnOvTPeLRRsugbJdqhxAE8JMf7uyg40zQeTNNB1qMaGCsK23aBZ-NdT0AM1t2glERsPcFivyEi5YV6kMdHfwE-j7WO1b-/s1600/2019-05-18e.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVhOrOWaVobRXI4-X8gUAHIXa7jhPTTaIkhJgbVGA2KBv6MuWQnOvTPeLRRsugbJdqhxAE8JMf7uyg40zQeTNNB1qMaGCsK23aBZ-NdT0AM1t2glERsPcFivyEi5YV6kMdHfwE-j7WO1b-/s320/2019-05-18e.jpg" /></a></center><center>Military procession, Lourdes.</center><center> </center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2-fymAHamptOgiRMt_-66cOVJ7iIdgfBivvvfU_zn-Z2oNSeCbZbUX90n1VBNpDXNW8HUerXENC05g_AuEkeXUFe6ZCUZOqUY40ULzl0f-bUdducbZsNB07vl-D9Bfs6ptJDkW8rDaz8/s1600/2019-05-18f.jpg" style="text-align: justify;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2-fymAHamptOgiRMt_-66cOVJ7iIdgfBivvvfU_zn-Z2oNSeCbZbUX90n1VBNpDXNW8HUerXENC05g_AuEkeXUFe6ZCUZOqUY40ULzl0f-bUdducbZsNB07vl-D9Bfs6ptJDkW8rDaz8/s320/2019-05-18f.jpg" /></a></center></center><center>Military procession, Lourdes. </center><center></center><center></center><center style="text-align: justify;">Everywhere there were parades, military bands, group photographs. The grotto was the scene of a mass for assembled Italian units. We managed to fill a bottle with holy water and purchase a medal for Jill's sister Julie. Last time we did this we found we had inadvertently drunk it before we could hand it on to its intended recipient, so this time we packed it carefully away. </center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center style="text-align: justify;"></center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-Dlr_MtXiKNukBbcongyNUJs-ezjgUdDydmPkpUiCoIYTQsUHB1fQi1gri3LoVlyj_2rAbhz8vQ2CLAi2fwinWRSbq7fL0DzvGHvcpdN-Vpbdvrmw5Lo2uaKmOZ1dHxY5UAPEdzlugqb/s1600/2019-05-18g.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-Dlr_MtXiKNukBbcongyNUJs-ezjgUdDydmPkpUiCoIYTQsUHB1fQi1gri3LoVlyj_2rAbhz8vQ2CLAi2fwinWRSbq7fL0DzvGHvcpdN-Vpbdvrmw5Lo2uaKmOZ1dHxY5UAPEdzlugqb/s320/2019-05-18g.jpg" /></a></center>Basilica, Lourdes. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jnwyIDb9vOlF5_A3sJwQ9Tu_LWgiiLq00HxGN0cJcoyi0WvIYhAZ6GXBDuPc08SdiaZTCS6RsYh_2RMZh5VZhNdwF5PzjGMtr_wF1HmXHnOqg2EB1f9QmcQAMzb_KRpHqvhekb_8dpg5/s1600/2019-05-18h.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jnwyIDb9vOlF5_A3sJwQ9Tu_LWgiiLq00HxGN0cJcoyi0WvIYhAZ6GXBDuPc08SdiaZTCS6RsYh_2RMZh5VZhNdwF5PzjGMtr_wF1HmXHnOqg2EB1f9QmcQAMzb_KRpHqvhekb_8dpg5/s320/2019-05-18h.jpg" /></a></center>International military pilgrimage, Lourdes. </center><center></center><center><center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxO4CV6pd6eg3NR53pY6KdTMz9A5d2twmGYsDLwqGRiDKnuvV7YrrezM6_GW6GhtYL1V-Y_xtRTyk6BQFcmUtn0tlhlPYs4PRrlPXjjOgaNCtrUFGtG-SZxPayL_WWHvkYAC_7VYmJJW3/s1600/2019-05-18j.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxO4CV6pd6eg3NR53pY6KdTMz9A5d2twmGYsDLwqGRiDKnuvV7YrrezM6_GW6GhtYL1V-Y_xtRTyk6BQFcmUtn0tlhlPYs4PRrlPXjjOgaNCtrUFGtG-SZxPayL_WWHvkYAC_7VYmJJW3/s400/2019-05-18j.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Holy water for Julie, Lourdes.</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IEYy8ceFnO5SI_9MlxVb6toOYaWHBE2CJiKS_Tbz6_OmfkdN8-2GeyURpq4auDGWVePF1HTy8QmCSFJt5PVDZOZQAz3lhMaoro5WKeCYHp3247T4HYpAyRec2R1oHPkroLKtyXRqDh-8/s1600/2019-05-18k.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IEYy8ceFnO5SI_9MlxVb6toOYaWHBE2CJiKS_Tbz6_OmfkdN8-2GeyURpq4auDGWVePF1HTy8QmCSFJt5PVDZOZQAz3lhMaoro5WKeCYHp3247T4HYpAyRec2R1oHPkroLKtyXRqDh-8/s400/2019-05-18k.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Jill with bottle of holy water, Lourdes. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-pz31US_RhtNtvAjhFPN77vqFZMDnHbHRVAQgp98k-U6lg5ZoYi2KUlHvNFELqZyKhCXZDn_xF5GimsQwT5XKgJESaqOgCaJUC07-K0WNMqOHpHt14AcawUcLS6Yl4DUDzHa2rumkr7K/s1600/2019-05-18l.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-pz31US_RhtNtvAjhFPN77vqFZMDnHbHRVAQgp98k-U6lg5ZoYi2KUlHvNFELqZyKhCXZDn_xF5GimsQwT5XKgJESaqOgCaJUC07-K0WNMqOHpHt14AcawUcLS6Yl4DUDzHa2rumkr7K/s320/2019-05-18l.jpg" /></a></center>International military pilgrimage, Lourdes.</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI7Y8Eo4Vafb_cM_AGoUAsPRxSKPAPrj3In2yWXm__xSJqhoEcJop3Qcwjl4Lymt2cniBb51bDCOGf3FqJljZXqB7E1I_zG5MqGmlDFbNvVKEG7AaeIGaUgKTKPXu7JWS03-ovQPle0_B/s1600/2019-05-18m.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI7Y8Eo4Vafb_cM_AGoUAsPRxSKPAPrj3In2yWXm__xSJqhoEcJop3Qcwjl4Lymt2cniBb51bDCOGf3FqJljZXqB7E1I_zG5MqGmlDFbNvVKEG7AaeIGaUgKTKPXu7JWS03-ovQPle0_B/s400/2019-05-18m.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>Group photograph, Lourdes. </center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxk2duOuF0oZ9uK5ZnA9eLXUSom_aHqqPqbw3zSdH9cRd5w1Jh4VXCZFiNBv3DQMPSLAcO1WyLT2yFSqySaD-oJq3RAtUaOEQc0Y_2koMvYresmus7B_If2rUR6NrNsTELJL1EkPoCtFM/s1600/2019-05-18n.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxk2duOuF0oZ9uK5ZnA9eLXUSom_aHqqPqbw3zSdH9cRd5w1Jh4VXCZFiNBv3DQMPSLAcO1WyLT2yFSqySaD-oJq3RAtUaOEQc0Y_2koMvYresmus7B_If2rUR6NrNsTELJL1EkPoCtFM/s400/2019-05-18n.jpg" width="300" /></a></center>International military pilgrimage, Lourdes.</center><center><br />
<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQsjAjSlFshoQiIt0ucn1Czpd3BfK7uE-YcVVi5q2u7EJS-XL5CNyzR79HKD45JeOeBcx1OF7GcrfYXq7vKoiJA3XZBY-v8to_r440Y9YjC7s3dQLwwcGJK0vP3xyXtkh_3KKQigPvtVp/s1600/2019-05-18o.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQsjAjSlFshoQiIt0ucn1Czpd3BfK7uE-YcVVi5q2u7EJS-XL5CNyzR79HKD45JeOeBcx1OF7GcrfYXq7vKoiJA3XZBY-v8to_r440Y9YjC7s3dQLwwcGJK0vP3xyXtkh_3KKQigPvtVp/s400/2019-05-18o.jpg" width="301" /></a></center>Service at the grotto, Lourdes. </center><center><br />
<center></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjwoQzbKoVLbd-JYgj77sddkLwieHO9ji4OD4O8IVOw3EN02UeB7_el1DjpElcJkWRllz7SLhz77ywFT4D1GPMJbkQiud4kgNqIigqZeO0uHIYDtNN8WPD0npxVza6XWW24wc6KUtvpfIV/s1600/2019-05-18q.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjwoQzbKoVLbd-JYgj77sddkLwieHO9ji4OD4O8IVOw3EN02UeB7_el1DjpElcJkWRllz7SLhz77ywFT4D1GPMJbkQiud4kgNqIigqZeO0uHIYDtNN8WPD0npxVza6XWW24wc6KUtvpfIV/s320/2019-05-18q.jpg" /></a></center>Basilica, Lourdes. </center><center><br />
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Our first day in the Languedoc was cold and damp. We drove into Saint Chinian and took a walk round the little town to seek out the familiar landmarks, going to the supermarket on the outskirts with the finest view of any in France to stock up for our stay. <br />
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Wealthy bourgeois houses beside the Vernazobre river, Saint Chinian</center>
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<b>Saturday 4 May</b> <br />
A day for catching up on washing and a chance to visit an art exhibition in a nearby village. The festival "Art in Prades" had brought the catering van of the Comité des fêtes into action and local artists and a dozen craftspeople had set up their stalls in the community centre attached to the mairie. Trestle tables were set out and snacks began to be served late in the afternoon. The duo of musicians, who were performing folksy music with a Catalan feel to it, had difficulty in attracting interest as most people were crowded around a screen watching replays of processions at previous rather grander village fetes. It was quite a low key event and aimed at the villagers themselves rather than the throngs of people from across the Languedoc who had failed to materialise. We would have been outsiders, had we stayed to eat their saucisses et frites, so we our village for a glass or more of wine on the terrace. <br />
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Art in Prades. Festival. Catering van. Prades-sur-Vernazobre</center>
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Art in Prades. Festival. Posters outside mairie. Prades-sur-Vernazobre</center>
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Art in Prades. Festival. Artists' display. Prades-sur-Vernazobre</center>
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Art in Prades. Festival. Musical entertainment. Prades-sur-Vernazobre</center>
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Art in Prades. Festival. Viewing former festivals. Prades-sur-Vernazobre</center>
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Art in Prades. Festival. Poster. Prades-sur-Vernazobre</center>
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<b>Sunday 5 May 2019</b></div>
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We visited the busy market in St Chinian in the morning, held under the trees in the main promenade. Campaigning was beginning for the European elections with daunting lists of candidates for more than thirty parties. Leaflets were being distributed for the Communist Party candidate Ian Brosset who seems to be winning approval for his policies from other candidates. He certainly hits the ecological buttons with a lack of Marxist cant - funding for energy efficiency in buildings, doubling the proportion of freight to be carried by rail, an end to austerity to benefit the planet and its occupants. Also proposals to reform the EU, including ending the requirement for the French budget to be submitted to Brussels before being placed before the French parliament - but no call for withdrawal, they hope to fight for changes from inside.</div>
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In the afternoon we visited Roquebrun. Outside the school there were banners protesting at the loss of teaching staff. Apparently the number of pupils had fallen below fifty, so they were entitled to one less teacher. </div>
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School. Protest banners. Roquebrun</center>
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General view. From mills. Roquebrun</center>
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Tower. From church. Roquebrun</center>
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Bridge. From church. Roquebrun</center>
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General view. From bridge. Roquebrun</center>
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<b>Monday 6 May 2019</b></div>
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We travelled to Beziers by bus from Saint-Chinian. Rural bus services in the Herault are not as densely provided as in the UK but they are certainly cheaper. There is a flat fare of 1.60 € - about £1.40 for the 30 or so Kilometers to Beziers - and we could have got much further for the same price.</div>
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Once arrived we found the city much improved since our recent visits. There was much less dog mess around and most of the central areas had been tidied up with pavements relaid and flower beds well tended. Posters boasted that the city had tripled the expenditure on street cleaning and the results showed, with people much in evidence keeping the streets clean. This was true also in the shabbier areas which were largely occupied by migrants. The houses may not have been given a face-lift but the streets were much cleaner. </div>
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Port Neuf. House at canal port. Béziers</center>
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Port Neuf. Canal port. Béziers</center>
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This visit we made our way to the port area, aiming to walk to the series of locks on the Canal du Midi. The port was no longer used for commercial purposes although it bore the evidence of the grand houses of former merchants. Now it was full of leisure craft. </div>
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General view. From Port Neuf. Béziers</center>
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Canal du Midi. Canal bridge. Béziers</center>
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Canal du Midi. Canal bridge. From Béziers</center>
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We crossed the canal bridge - a later addition to the Canal du Midi than Paul Riquet's 17th century work - and continued along the canal, past mother ducks guarding their broods to the Ecluses de Fonserunes. </div>
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Canal du Midi. Ducks. Béziers</center>
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Ecluses de Fonserunes. Canal locks. Canal du Midi. Béziers</center>
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Ecluses de Fonserunes. Canal locks. Canal du Midi. Béziers</center>
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We climbed up the slope beside the locks, watching the craft passing through. A boat hoist had also been constructed to assist in the long haul through the locks, but this was not in use. </div>
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Ecluses de Fonserunes. Canal locks. Canal du Midi. Béziers</center>
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We returned to the city via the Pont-Vieux, a medieval bridge with wonderful views up towards the cathedral which Ian could not resist photographing yet again.</div>
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Saint-Nazaire. Cathedral. From Pont Neuf. Béziers</center>
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Pont Vieux. Bridge. Béziers</center>
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Pont Vieux. Bridge. Béziers.<br />
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Back in the city we visited the church of St Jacques with its glitzy gold statue and wandered the streets of the old town. Like so many places in France it had its share of trompe l'oeil mural paintings, in this instance one in memory of the resistance fighter Jean Moulin. </div>
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Saint-Nazaire. Cathedral. From Saint-Jacques. Béziers</center>
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Saint-Jacques. Church. South side. Béziers</center>
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Saint-Jacques. Church. Apse. Béziers</center>
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Moulin, Jean. Resistance leader. Mural. Béziers</center>
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Saint-Nazaire. Cathedral. Cloisters. Béziers</center>
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Today we took a more local tour, revisiting places of which we had fond memories, starting with the abbey at Fontecaude, set in a little dip in the midst of the wild garrigue with its pictureque hamlet beside a little stream. </div>
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Abbey. Fontcaude</center>
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The village (or little town - it is often difficult to draw the line in France) of Puisserguier has its own medieval castle, accessible to the public but in great need of renovation. </div>
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Castle. Courtyard. Puisserguier</center>
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Mairie,. Puisserguier</center>
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The town hall on the other hand, located in the former mansion of a wine grower, was in a much better condition, proudly flying its flags, its stonework gleaming and its little garden neatly trimmed - a suitable place for Jill to relax. </div>
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Mairie. Puisserguier</center>
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Jill. Puisserguier</center>
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There was a trompe l'oeil mural to intrigue and delight us - can you see where the real world begins?<br />
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Mural. Puisserguier</center>
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Then on to nearby Malpas, an intriguing node in communications across more than two millennia. The celtic oppidum of Enserune tops the hill to the west with wonderful views to the south where the 17th century Canal du Midi and the Roman Via Domitia cross the plain below.</div>
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Celtic oppidum. Enserune. Storage bins</center>
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Celtic oppidum. Enserune. Storage bins with Modestine</center>
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To the north the view from the hilltop at Enserune is completely different, across the massive drained pond of Montady, the converging field boundaries giving the appearance of a gigantic sliced pizza quattro stagione. It was the work of medieval monks who constructed a drainage tunnel passing beneath the ridge at Montady. </div>
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Etang de Montady. Drained pond. Montady</center>
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Across the top of the ridge passed the Via Domitia, and a milestone is still there to remind us. Below this and above the medieval drainage channel the 17th century Canal du Midi and the 19th century railway cross one another in tunnels. </div>
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Via Domitia. Roman road. Milestone. Malpas</center>
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Canal du Midi. Entering the tunnel at Malpas</center>
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Canal du Midi. leaving the tunnel at Malpas</center>
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Canal du Midi. Tunnel. Malpas</center>
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Our final stop of the day was the village of Capestang which also has its chateau and a pond that has still not been drained, but we made our way to the collegiate church with the nearly square, shaded with trees, where we had a welcome coffee. <br />
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Church. Capestang</center>
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We went to Narbonne for the day on yet another bank holiday just a week after May Day, the Fête de la Victoire, Victory in Europe day. There were diversions around towns and villages for ceremonies at war memorials in Cuxac d'Aude. Macron is aiming to cut down on the number of national holidays as part of the measures that are antagonising the gilets jaunes. There is a long tradition of confrontation with the central authories in the Languedoc and the Occitane region in general, be it with the French king and the Papal legates by the Cathars in the 13th century, the protestant Camisards in the Cevennes after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 or the government of Clemenceau in 1907 when more than 30,000 troops were called in and five people were killed by gunfire in Narbonne. The events are recorded in large panels of old photographs across the town. </div>
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Vignerons protest of 1907. <br />
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The city is attractively laid out along the banks of the Canal de la Robine, an ancient bed of the River Aude which separates the historic quarters of the Bourg and the Cité. Like so many towns there have been many improvements since our earlier visits. </div>
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Canal. Narbonne</center>
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Canal. Narbonne</center>
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If it had ever been completed the cathedral would have been one of the largest in France with a very high roof to the choir. Started in 1272, the choir was completed by 1332 but disputes with the town and financial problems meant that it was never completed. It would have meant the demolition of the roman town walls and this the city fathers would not countenance. </div>
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Cathedral. Narbonne</center>
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Cathedral. Narbonne</center>
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Cathedral. Narbonne</center>
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The gardens by the cathedral are laid out in the traditional formal carefully clipped Franch style but for some obscure reason it has been decided to erect a massive rusting metal monstrosity at one end to edge a walkway leading to a terrace over the top of some modern shops. </div>
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Cathedral. Narbonne</center>
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Cathedral, Narbonne</center>
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Cathderal, Narbonne</center>
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Archbishop's palace. Narbonne</center>
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France treasures its markets and there is a national competition to find the best market. There were leaflet in the market at Narbonne encouraging support, and it certainly merits it. It is decorated externally with large photographic displays honouring the protesters of 1907 and inside the covered market the food stalls were packed with diners. People were queuing to grab seats as they became vacant. </div>
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Halles. Narbonne</center>
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Halles. Narbonne</center>
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Halles. Narbonne</center>
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Narbonne's history goes back to Roman times and inscribed stones have been built into its walls. There is a section of the Via Domitia in the main square and various fragments scattered around, including a pillar by the bar where we had a coffee. </div>
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Town walls. Narbonne</center>
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Roman column. Narbonne</center>
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<b>Thursday 9 May 2019</b></div>
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In the morning we went to St Chinian market to treat ourselves to a five litre bag-in-box of Roquebrun red wine. In the afternoon we drove the winding roads across the hills from Berlou to Vieussan. Ian's pictures speak for themselves.</div>
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Vineyards. Berlou</center>
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General view. Escagnès</center>
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General view. Mézeilles</center>
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Schist strata. Mézeilles</center>
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General view. Vieussan</center>
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Old buildings. Vieussan</center>
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Caroux mountain. From Vieussan. Espinousse range</center>
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Flowers at Vieussan</center>
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Flowers at Vieussan</center>
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Agave (Jill for scale). Vieussan</center>
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Caroux mountain. From Vieussan. Espinousse range</center>
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Cemetery. Vieussan</center>
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The village of Vieussan was once virtually deserted and there are still few facilities there, but incomers, many of them foreigners, have restored the place without making it touristy. At the top of the town there is a rose garden and active steps are being taken to combat one of the biggest scourges of streets in France:</div>
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Dog mess poster. Vieussan</center>
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Bridge. Vieussan</center>
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General view. From road. Vieussan</center>
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Swallows nesting in tile overhangs (genoises). Vieussan</center>
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<b>Friday 10 May 2019</b></div>
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Today was a round and winding tour through the mountains of the Espinousse to revisit three places, each with a distinct character. </div>
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Saint Pons-de-Thomière lies 23 kilometers to the west of Saint-Chinian at the end of a well engineered road which passes through the Defilé de l'Ilouvre. There is a massive quarry on the way into the town and the distinctive red and white St Pons marble is everywhere, used for pavements, facing buildings old and new and appearing on monuments both interior and exterior. For all this lavishness it remains a rather sad and depressing little town. With a declining population, now less than 2,000, it has its own cathedral with Romanesque features, upgraded from an abbey church in 1318 but it is run down with plants growing out of the stonework and pleas for funds to heat the massive interior of the building. Historic buildings there are a-plenty but their antiquity is hidden and they are shabby and not picturesque. </div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><br />The fact that much of its interest lies hidden is exemplified by the source of the river Jaur, which flows fully formed from the rock face a short way behind the tourist office. Apparently there are six kilometers of caverns that have been explored including one of the largest underground lakes in Europe.</span></div>
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Source de la Jaur. Resurgance. Saint-Pons-de-Thomières.<br />
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The whole place was quiet and the tourist office closed by workers on strike for liberté égalité and fraternité - and perhaps more money to give the whole place a face-lift. </div>
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Tourist office. Strike banners. Saint-Pons-de-Thomières</center>
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The road wound ever upward the 21 long kilometers to La Salvetat-sur-Agout, a little town of about 1,200 inhabitants located some 700 meters above sea level, its historic centre crowning a hill round which the river Agout flows. It had been bitter cold on our last visit and we were glad for the shelter of La Pergola. Today we were able to take our coffee outside and then admire the improvements that had been made in resurfacing the streets and providing seats along the terraces overlooking the lower town.There was an informative series of plaques giving a tour of the historic centre and our interest was engaged by a community library which styled itself "Le livre voyageur". </div>
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Community library. Salvetat-sur-Agout</center>
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The appearance of the town from the ramparts was a contrast to those on the other side of the Espinousse, gone were the red tiles, large slabs of slate were used for roofing and hung on end walls to give protection from the elements. </div>
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General view. From ramparts. Salvetat-sur-Agout</center>
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The 26 magnificent kilometers back across the Espinousse, started through the upland meadows with cattle grazing. A deer sprang across the road in front of us. Hairpin bends winding down the hillsides brought us back to the valley of the Jaur and the village of Olargues, long a member of the exclusive group of the "plus beaux villages de France". With a population of about 700 it packed more liveliness than Saint Pons with craft shops and purveyors of local foodstuffs catering for the summer tourists. </div>
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Pont du Diable. Bridge. Espinousse behind. Olargues</center>
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The medieval Devil's Bridge, now pedestrianised, crosses the river below the castle, which can be approached through the village centre up a covered stone stairway which passes the little museum. </div>
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Escalier de la Commanderie. Staircase. Olargues</center>
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Chapelle Saint-Etienne. Church. Olargues</center>
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Beyond the chapel a path winds up to the ruins of the castle, of which only the church tower remains intact, although the outlines of the rooms are cut into the solid rock. From the castle are views up and down the valley towards the Devil's Bridge and the disused railway, now a cycle path. </div>
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Castle. Tower. Olargues</center>
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Castle. Tower. Olargues</center>
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Railway bridge. From castle. Olargues</center>
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Pont du Diable. Bridge. From castle. Olargues</center>
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Today we decided on a walk through the vineyards and the garrigue above Saint-Chinian. Parking the car just below the windmill that looks over the town, we set out, discovering capitelles (the dry stone shelters built for workers or livestock) old wells, views over neighbouring villages - and dodging the odd mountain biker who leaped down the rough tracks at a hair-brained rate, skidding from side to side of the stony paths.</div>
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Vineyards. Saint-Chinian</center>
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Capitelle. Saint-Chinian</center>
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Well. Saint-Chinian. </center>
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General view of Cébazan from above Saint-Chinian</center>
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Windmill. Saint-Chinian</center>
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We returned to find we had a companion waiting on the terrace to share the glass of wine that we felt we had earned from our walk. </div>
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Locust. Ambre-les-Espagnolettes</center>
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Ian + wine. Ambre-les-Espagnolettes</center>
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<b>Sunday 12 May 2019</b></div>
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At the Sunday market in St Chinian there was an international bustle - English, Dutch, German, American voices could all be heard. We purchased a retro plate stand for Kate's kitchen and the young man who sold it saw our badges and expressed regret for the Brexit situation. "Please don't leave us", he said - none of the English he had met were in favour, we suppose understandably so, because many of them had homes in and around St Chinian. We also purchased Morrocan flat bread from a charming Arab couple, the woman in a headscarf and both busy preparing bread, tagines and other culinary delights on the stand. The bread was delicious and served to accompany our coffee at Les Balcons, to sustain us before our walk and as an amuse-bouche with taramasalata and wine before our evening meal. </div>
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Market. Saint-Chinian</center>
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Market. Saint-Chinian</center>
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So we drove up the Orb valley to the Gorges d'Héric. It was not our first visit, nor were we the first Devonians to visit. More than a century earlier Sabine Baring-Gould had written: </div>
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"But the finest excursion of all is to the gorge of Héric. For this it is advisable to take the train to Colombières and walk thence, or drive from Lamalou. The station of Trivalle is close to the entrance of the gorge, but from that side it can rarely be ascended, as the path built up against the precipice is often broken down and not repaired. But from the other side the ascent is easily made. The view up the ravine to the needle rocks of granite above is hardly to be surpassed for beauty of colour or form. The sides are precipitous for 900 feet. By the path one can reach the village of Héric, lost at the extremity of this tremendous ravine, and this is its only means of communication with the outside world ; and so dangerous is the path that there is a saying in the country that no inhabitant of Héric dies in his bed. What I have said before I repeat here. None of the gorges in the Cevennes resemble one another ; they have not even a family likeness, for the Caroux, from which the stream descends, and into the bowels of which this gorge is cleft, is of granite ; and what resemblance can there be between granite and basalt or dolomitic limestone? When I visited the ravine, snow powdered the silvery-grey needles at the head and lay in the laps. So seen, the picture of that ravine is indelibly impressed on my memory as one of surpassing savage beauty." </div>
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Access may have changed but the splendours remain. While the railway no longer passes the foot of the gorges, there is a route for a car park with a fee of 3.50 Euros to maintain the facilities. The length of the well-maintained path is 5 Kilometers and it rises 315 meters (more than 1,000 feet). The little buvette at the top was open. This time the son and granddaughter were serving, grandma limiting her activities to supervising. The photographs speak for themselves better than we ever could.</div>
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Gorges d'Héric. Gorge. Mons-la-Trivalle</center>
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Gorges d'Héric. Gorge. Mons-la-Trivalle</center>
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Gorges d'Héric. Gorge. Mons-la-Trivalle</center>
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Gorges d'Héric. Gorge. Mons-la-Trivalle</center>
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Héric. Hamlet. Mons-la-Trivalle</center>
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As we climbed the dwarf oaks gave way to chestnut trees, which once provided a livelihood for the inhabitants of the little hamlet, but in recent years they had fallen prey to disease. The way down was very much easier than the way up!</div>
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<b>Tuesday 14 May 2019</b> </div>
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We finally managed to arrange a visit to our friend Christine, a former Exonian who we had met on our first visit in 2005. She had been recently widowed and had put much soul-searching into whether to stay or remain. She had visited family in England and had an enjoyable time there but felt that her heart had moved to France where she had become very much part of the local community. Certainly she needed to downsize. The lovely house had a swimming pool and extensive lands stretching through woodlands down to the river which her husband had kept under control but she had already sold it with an agreement that she could rent it until the house she was having built on a nearby development was completed. We visited the building site and had lunch in nearby Herepian during a happy visit tinged with sadness. Brits who have moved abroad face a range of problems, many made worse by Brexit, but Christine is more resilient than most and we wished her well for the future. </div>
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Today was spent packing for our departure. We went out for fuel and decided to continue in the direct of Minerve. We got no further than Agel where we were approached in the car park asking whether we were there for the wedding in the castle. We contemplated gate-crashing but were not well enough attired so contented ourselves with looking around the village on the river Cesse - well named as it was not exactly overflowing its banks. </div>
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Cesse. River. Dry bed. Agel</center>
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Cesse. River. Bridge. Agel</center>
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We later learned that, because of the limestone rocks, the middle course of the Cesse river often ran entirely underground, although floods were not entirely unknown. Armed with a leaflet guide we explored the outside of impressive castle, climbed up to the stump of a windmill, looked at the church and wandered the streets of the old central area. </div>
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Castle. Agel</center>
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Castle. Agel</center>
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Windmill. Agel</center>
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Castle. Agel</center>
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Gateway. Agel</center>
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Church. Agel</center>
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We returned to our haven in Ambre for a final evening glass of wine on the terrace before moving on after almost two pleasantly relaxing weeks, courtesy of the friends who let us use their home. Thank you both once again.</div>
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Our route today led from Le Puy to Florac via the Mende Hills and now the bends began in earnest. We left the volcanic peaks behind, crossing upland plateaux with stones and rocks piled up in lines to separate fields. Our route criss-crossed the Modestine trail, now the long-distance footpath GR70 and fully geared up for tourists with at least eight organisations hiring donkeys and about 200 restaurants, accommodation and other services along the 220 Km Chemin de Stevenson. We even noticed a Modest'Inn among them! In Mende we rediscovered the HyperU on the outskirts, a massive complex where we purchased hot chicken and potatoes to devour in Modestine. An alarming steep winding descent from the Col de Montmirac (1046 meters) led us into the Tarn valley north of Florac. Florac was a disappointment. The campsite we had used before, but it seemed a long way into the town to find the picturesque spots - not "just 5 minutes" away as the guide suggested. Perhaps they meant by car. This time it seemed a run down shabby old town and like Le Puy full of dog mess. This impression was somewhat softened by an early evening nightingale serenading us back at the campsite.</div>
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Today was dedicated to a leisurely drive down the 50 kilometres of the impressive Gorges du Tarn, a drive made more agreeable by the lack of traffic this early in the year. Our first stop was at Castelbouc, one of nineteen castles strung along the gorges. Dating from the 12th century it is named in recognition of the young seigneur left to look after the wives of local warriors away on the crusades. Attentive to their every need he apparently died of exhaustion and his ghost in the form of a buck (bouc) haunted the castle. </center>
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Sainte Enimie is the largest settlement along the gorges. Its cobbled streets climb up to the. Benedictine Abbey, refounded from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille in 951 which once dominated the little town. Helped by the fortunate discovery of the relics of Sainte Enimie it thrived during the middle ages. The last six monks left in 1788 and it was destroyed in 1793 during the Revolution when, it is reported, the library with its precious contents burned for eight days. Many of the stones were re-used within the town. The refectory and the wine cellar (mistakenly known as the chapter house and the crypt) are all that survive. </center>
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The Hermitage of the Rock protects the cave where Saint Enimie and her god-daughter, also named Enimie, lived and died. Ste Enimie was the daughter of the Frankish king Clotaire II. She refused all offers of marriageand asked God to save her chastity. He helpfully gave her leprosy! Imploring divine aid again she was sent to a healing spring in the Lozere. She did many good deeds and was nominated abbess by the local bishop. There she overcame the Drac, an incarnation of the devil who is depicted in a fearsome mural sculpture in the austere late romanesque church. After she died in 628 her brother king Dagobert wished to inter her remains in the basilica of St Denis in Paris but by a clever ruse it was the remains of her synonymous god-daughter that were transferred, allowing the monks to rediscover the saint's remains at a convenient moment. A medieval piece of fake news or, more kindly, a local legend? </div>
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Legend of Sainte-Enimie. </center>
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Sainte-Enimie. </center>
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Further down the gorges Hautes-Rives looked picturesque, peaceful and generally idyllic but all was not well behind the picture postcard image. The winch was out of order and the only approach on foot or by boat. The posters put up by the distressed inhabitants claimed that there was not even a public toilet to serve the many tourists that did manage to get there.</center>
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Hautes-Rives. </center>
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Hautes-Rives. </center>
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Hautes-Rives.</center>
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In La Malene a local in the bar told us that it had been so cold overnight that there had been frost in the Causses of Lozere at the top of the gorges. He felt sorry for Theresa May trying to reconcile demands of the "bizarre Monsieur Johnson" and all the others. He felt that Ireland was the big sticking point. All was not well in Europe, he said, but we should make common cause to effect changes. Over lunch we watched the cars climb the "Chemin difficile", corkscrewing up to the desolate causses above the gorge. </center>
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Malene. </center>
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Jill at Malene.</center>
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In the local baker's our baguette was wrapped in a bag with publicity for Lozere social services, home helps, meals on wheels, child care etc. We felt it to be an effective way of getting a message across, recyclable packaging for something most French people buy fresh every day. </center>
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Chemin difficile. Malene. </center>
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Gorges du Tarn at Malene. </center>
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Gorges du Tarn at Malene. </center>
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Chemin difficile Malene. </center>
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Bridge at Malene. </center>
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Gorges du Tarn. Malene. </center>
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After lunch we went for a stroll along a track beside the river over the bridge from Malene, taking many photographs of this beautiful area before heading on to the narrowest part of the gorges where, as at many points along their length, the rock faces overhang the road, causing it to pass through tunnels. </div>
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Detroits. Gorges du Tarn. </center>
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Detroits. Gorges du Tarn.</center>
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After the Detroits the gorges open out and we soon arrived at Millau where we were to spend the night. </div>
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<b>Wednesday 1 May 2019, Millau</b></div>
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Millau on May day meant women selling bunches of lily of the valley and men with red flags under their arms on their way to a demonstration somewhere. We set out to explore the town. </div>
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A monumental and stylish building proved to be the the local Lavoir or wash-house, built in 1749 to embellish and modernise the image of the town.<br />
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On the River Tarn are the remains of the old bridge with a medieval mill. The 12th century bridge was almost entirely washed away by a flood in 1758.<br />
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The Porte du Vaultre was not a defensive gate to the town but simply a medieval house built across the street to save space. It is still a private residence today. </div>
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The Hotel de Tauriac behind the Hotel de Galy has a tall square tower dating from the 12th century, built by the Kings of Aragon who were overlords of this part of Occitania. It is topped by a 17th century belfry, the symbol of the authoritarian rulers of that time.</div>
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The Hotel de Galy is an 18th century town house with a 21st century make-over to house the Office de Tourisme. The result typifies much of French design, a mix of misplaced pastiche and outspoken modernity without consideration of aesthetics or even practicality. The panelled doors surrounded by glass panels, the original corner tower topped by a glass cupola, the arcades fitted with large computer display screens facing straight into the sun and therefore invisible. In fact the town seems to specialise in illegible displays. The massive shopping complex of La Capelle also houses the Mediatheque with its name emblasoned across the glass frontage in a script that is almost impossible to decipher and the headings in the handout map issued by the Tourist Office employed a flowery script with capitals as difficult to identify as German Fraktur type. </center>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The Place Fach was filled with a bustling market and was also home to the Cafe Les Colonnades. The square, the oldest in the town was formerly a burial ground but had served as the market place since medieval times and has two massive and venerable plane trees, also the busy PMU cafe under the colonnades where we braved the smoke from the gauloises to get a slice of French social life. Notre-Dame de l'Espinasse gets it name from a thorn from Christ's crown of thorns which it housed in medieval times. There was no sign of the relic today but a friendly lady cleaning the church turned on the light so we could admire the large murals in the apse behind the high altar dating from 1939-40, while a student from the music conservatoire used the acoustics of the church to practise on her flute.</span></div>
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One reason for passing through Millau was to visit Geneviève's brother Yves who had recently moved there from Caen as his partner Christine had taken up a school headship there. After being unable to contact them by email and mobile we trekked out through the modern suburbs to the school only to find that they had gone away over the May Day holidays. We also spent much of the day searching for the glove factory we had enjoyed visiting last time only to find it almost opposite the campsite next to La Capelle but, like most places, closed on May Day. So we took a walk through the Graufesenque, meadows south of the Dourbie river where it joins the Tarn (hence name of Camping des Deux Rivieres). The meadows were a landing place for hang-gliders taking off from the limestone outcop of Puech d'Andan. We counted over thirty and watched several landing gracefully in front of us. We also watched a game of boules before returning to Modestine.<br />
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In the morning we looked at the glove factory before moving on. It was possible to see the workers cutting out and hand stitching the gloves. Those on display were beyond our reach and we noticed that they counted Madonna among their clientele. </center>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Old and new: the old bridge with the Viaduc de Millau behind. </span></center>
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We had only had a glimpse of the beautiful Viaduc de Millau during our stay and today we avoided the toll on our drive to Ambre, using the free motorway which must be one of the steepest in Europe. Fortunately we were going downhill but were overtaken by cars drawing caravans completely disregarding speed limits. The afternoon saw us back in the Languedoc and opening the shutters on the village house that was to be our home for the next couple of weeks. </center>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-78604487972132762432019-07-30T09:24:00.001-07:002019-07-30T09:41:35.563-07:00From Franche-Comte to Puy-en-Velay<b style="text-align: justify;">Saturday 27 April 2019</b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">We spent four very relaxed and happy days in our old familiar surroundings with our good friends. </span></div>
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Today we left Champagne-sur-Loue, heading south to follow the valley of the river Ain. </center>
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While the gorge of the Ain is not as impressive as many of the gorges in the Midi, the force of its waters had led it to be tamed in a series of reservoirs. The first hydro-electric generators appeared in the early 20th century and a chain of factories were set up along the valley. </div>
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<b>Sunday 28 April 2019</b></div>
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Today the weather was better but very cold. The Gilets Jaunes demonstrators were not active on Sundays but we saw a collection of yellow jackets hung like scarecrows on top of posts with assorted banners. We crossed the Rhone at Vienne and continued south along the west bank of the river to Serrières. We passed below hillsides covered with vines and through pleasant villages with the gently sloping red tiled roofs of the south of France. At Serrières we turned west towards Le Puy-en-Velay arriving at the little campsite at the foot of the rock and chapel of Saint-Michel-d'Aiguille - the lava chimney of an extinct volcano. A very friendly young man at the reception, an Anglophile who had worked in Peterborough, noted our Devon for Europe badges with approval.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The romanesque cathedral's building was adorned with patterns from different coloured volcanic stones. While it dominates the town it was difficult to access. It is one of the many starting points for the Camino de Compostella. The black Madonna was wearing her own gilet jaune - a yellow gown specially reserved for the week after Easter. An organist demonstrated the massive baroque organ to a group of students and filled the cathedral with sound. We could peep at the beautiful romanesque cloisters through the hand-made glass of a doorway. Weather-beaten but friendly looking lions guarded the door to St John's baptistery. </span></div>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-67520908654585247732019-07-30T09:09:00.000-07:002019-07-30T09:11:14.267-07:00From Normandy to Franche Comte<b style="text-align: justify;">Wednesday 17 April 2019</b><br />
Our friends Susanne and Roland over near the border with Switzerland in their rural idyll of Champagne-sur-Loue are both well into their eighties now. I can no longer be confident that our travels will continue indefinitely and we were anxious to see them again. So leaving our friends in Caen we headed south east for a couple of day driving across the empty French landscape towards Burgundy, trying, as always, to discover different routes.<br />
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We left Caen this morning, heading towards the Jura along familiar routes, even having lunch in a woodland lay-by we recognised from a previous trip. During the day we heard our first cuckoo of the year. Near Chateaudun we found our way along a country lane blocked by a young fawn standing in the middle of the road looking lost. It allowed Ian to gently nudge it to the side of the road while I edged cautiously past it. We camped overnight at Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, so we hadn't quite reached our aim of getting to the Loire (the one with a final E) on our first day out from Caen.<br />
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<b>Thursday 18 April 2019</b><br />
Shortly after setting out on the road to Orleans a massive wayside monument drew our attention and we stopped to investigate. It proved to be a memorial of an incident during the Franco-Prussian War when on 9 November 1870 the Army of the Loire, commanded by General d'Aurelle de Paladines captured the park at Coulmiers, the last point of resistance by the Bavarian troops. It was one of the few French victories during that war.<br />
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Just over the border into Burgundy we paused at Saint-Fargeau and looked at the massive 16th century castle with its imposing brick-built towers. It was, in the 17th century, the residence of <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">, (1627-1693) known as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">La Grande Mademoiselle, the cousin of Louis XIV, exiled there after being on the wrong side in the Fronde civil war. </span></span> </div>
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Canal du Nivernais. Merry-sur-Yonne. </center>
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<b>Friday 19 April 2019 </b></div>
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This time we ended up camping beside a lock on a canal in deepest rural France. It was so delightful we stayed and extra day and walked along the canal path to climb up to a small walled town of mediaeval buildings, silent and empty in the heat of the midday sun. We stopped to chat with workers restoring the tower of the village church who told us that the fire in Paris would mean that all moneys for restoration would go to Notre Dame which would leave churches across France with no money for regional restoration projects.</div>
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We walked along the canal to Mailly-le-Château, passing limestone rocks with Jurassic fossils of a coral reef. At the entrance to the town was a 15th century bridge with a little chapel dedicated to St Nicholas. The old town with its castle high on the rocks was only reached after a hot and sticky climb.<br />
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Canal du Nivernais. Limestone cliffs with coral reef fossils in background. </center>
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Mailly-le-Ch<span style="text-align: justify;">ât</span>eau. Old town on hilltop with castle. </center>
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Saint Nicolas. Bridge chapel. Mailly-le-Ch<span style="text-align: justify;">ât</span>eau.</center>
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Mailly-le-Ch<span style="text-align: justify;">ât</span>eau. Views down towards the canal and river.</center>
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We sat under the shade of the trees on the cliff edge with our picnic lunch and a bottle of water looking down on the shining canal and out across the wide green countryside as we recovered from our walk and waited for the town to show a flicker of life. Eventually we realised this was just village life and it was always this silent so strolled through the deserted village streets overhung by climbing roses with sleeping cats on doorsteps until we found the church, offering not only cool relief from the midday heat but the chance to read about the beatification of one of the town’s residents back in the 1930’s!<br />
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Apart from the castle, now a private residence, there was a 14th century church with much being made of a local lass, Elise Bisschop (1925-1964), well on her way to beatification. Plagued throughout her life by respiratory illness, she remained cheerful and dedicated her life to helping children and young people in the region, writing poems and songs.</div>
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Church, Mailly-le-Château.</center>
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Bridge, Mailly-le-Château.</center>
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Bridge, Mailly-le-Château.<br />
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We returned along the canal, finding amusement in watching the efforts of holiday makers attempting to moor their boats to the banks. From a distance marker it would appear that this stretch of the canal was only completed in 1866.</div>
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Eventually we had to face the long walk back along beside the canal. It took ages as we kept stopping to cool off by splashing canal water over each other. A few boats passed through the locks but nobody offered us a lift. So by the time we reached the village where we were camping we had just enough energy to tumble into the cool bar and order a couple of chilled beers. Never has it tasted so good.</center>
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<b>Saturday 20 April 2019</b></center>
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We continued south east through the Morvan national park, avoiding Vezelay and shopping for Easter weekend in Avallon. We drove through Saulieu which had a busy market with car parks packed. We camped at Chalons-sur-Saone, where we were warned that there had been a theft on the campsite the night before, with five unlocked vans raided. Mainly cash was taken but two electric bikes were stolen. Carefully locking Modestine we walked by the Saone, crossing a couple of islands into the old town. </center>
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Half timbered house, Chalon-sur-Saone.</center>
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On to the beautiful city of Dole, which had a fun fair beside the river. We had a beer in a restaurant in the main street run by couple of clowns, one, an accordion player, tried to short-change Ian and then proceeded to borrow from another customer to make up the required change. We gathered when we passed by later that he had been reimbursed and it appeared to be typical of their unorthodox behaviour.<br />
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Leaving Dole, we went up the winding road along the gorge of the little river to Ivrey but, finding our English friends there were not at home we drove on to Salins and up to Fort St Andre for lunch with views over the town deep in the gorge below. Descending into Salins we stopping to buy flowers and a fruit tart for supper as we were expected by Susanne and Roland. Then on to Champagne for dinner with Susanne and Roland preceded by the usual aperitif of home produced wine and brandy. We found little had changed with them when we arrived and their welcome was as warm and happy as ever. Despite us being from such a very different background we have always got on well though they have little concept, or indeed interest, of our way of life, so different in all respects from the<span style="color: #990000;">irs.</span><br />
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We have been back to this little village so many times since we retired that things in the flat have their regular location and we quickly settled back in. I was even able to pick up the novel I was reading on our last visit, my bookmark still in place, and continue from where I’d left off.<br />
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We planned to visit some of our well-loved haunts over the coming days and started with a walk to Buffard over the Loue bridge. We saw many small fishes but no large ones. Previously there had been many more. Reports of water samples posted up by the bridge stated that river was moderately safe for bathing but just next to it was a decree by the mairie that bathing in the river at Champagne-sur-Loue was prohibited anyway. Another notice stated that that because of the drought the letting off of fireworks and crackers was also banned. Arrived in Buffard we saw a notice that a local group of gilets jaunes was to assemble at the mairie on Wednesday - at least they won't be disturbing the peace of the little villages by setting off fireworks! </div>
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Today we visited the tourist information in Arbois to access the internet. This was followed by lunch at Le Faramand. We were lucky to find a table as it is normally packed out by locals enjoying the cheap menu du jour. We drove up the blind valley behind Arbois, becoming ever more enclosed by towering cliffs as we approached the final settlement at Les Planches, Here the river Cuisance springs in full spate from caverns in the limestone, tumbling over the Cascade des Tufs, covered in moss and with fascinating travertine formations. The little river was the motive force for a number of watermills. In medieval times they fulfilled a number of functions but by the 18th century papermaking was predominant. In the mid 19th century one mill in the village of Mesnay started to specialise in cardboard, basically thick paper and using much the same techniques. as papermaking. The mill continued until the 1980s giving much employment locally and providing the community with electric light in 1900, a co-operative shop which used its own tokens, a library and many other paternalistic actions. In the 1980s the rise in oil prices, the emergence of plastics and other factors led to the firm's bankruptcy and in 1999 the Ecomusée du carton was opened in one of the disused factory buildings, complete with much of the equipment and fascinating historical detail. Among other things, from the 19th century good quality shoes were being made from glazed card . The museum had a receptionist from Kazakhstan who had met and married a Frenchman from the Jura there. She asked whether it rained as much in England as it did in the Jura.</div>
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Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-17112300346874234762019-07-30T04:31:00.000-07:002019-07-30T04:31:17.720-07:00Across the Channel<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>26th June 2019, Exeter</b><br />
We recently returned from a couple of months travelling around France, seeking out our friends and revisiting places that have become dear to us over the years. Neither we nor Modestine are in as lively a condition as when we set out on our travels fourteen years ago and with the heavy pall of concern hanging over Europe concerning Britain’s role after Brexit, travel is becoming far less enjoyable that when we first retired. We count ourselves lucky that our travels coincided with the time when Europe was at its best. We were able to travel freely, people were welcoming, the Euro was worth 62p rather than the 89p of today and Europe was a safe and happy place in which to travel, explore, meet people and enjoy friendship and hospitality. We have been very privileged to have travelled when we did.<br />
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We have been relieved and surprised at how warm the welcome still is as we travel around. Of course we have friends, real friends who always make us feel welcome and by whom we are accepted almost as family. It still takes us by surprise, oppressed and depressed as we feel back in England at the constant stream of political rhetoric assailing us fom the media. If we believed half of what we constantly hear back in England we’d be too nervous to think of crossing to our neighbours in France. The reality is that Europe still wants us to remain, even after we have all behaved so badly and so rudely towards them over the past two or three years. In one of the many colourful and lively street markets market in southern France on our latest visit people were pleading with us not to leave, saying we were still welcome and needed. As if we had any say in the matter!! </span><br />
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Fortunately Ian had taken photographs and made notes so what follows is based largely on these with a few interjections on my part.<br />
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<b>Thursday 11 April 2019</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Advancing years make it increasingly difficult to obtain travel insurance for longer trips abroad. Uncertainties over Brexit as we prepared to leave also meant that it was unclear whether we would require green cards, and it transpired that four kinds were available - the one that covered France did not also cover Spain, for example. However as advancing years also mean that extended trips become more of an effort, we settled for a two months stay in France. Jill's eye problems have made extended driving difficult and we found we were too weary at the end of a day to maintain the blogs. However Ian promised to take photographs and make notes as we went along. We decided to try to visit as many friends as possible and, as they have inconsiderately positioned themselves in the six corners of the hexagon there was still a fair amount of driving involved. So today we set off on the afternoon ferry from Portsmouth, arriving after a calm crossing at Ouistreham. Although it was dark Jill was familiar with the roads and we arrived in Caen at about 10.30. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Friday 12 April 2019</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We settled into our familiar routine at Caen - coffee and fresh baguettes for breakfast followed by a visit to the market in Fosses Saint Julien and the Place Saint Sauveur where we wondered as always at the wide range of produce on sale. One thing we have not learned from our membership of the European Union is to cherish our local produce in the way that is done in towns large and small across France. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Saturday 13 April 2019</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today we visited a garden centre on the outskirts of Caen with Geneviève to choose a plant to put in the pot we had purchased for her in England. After much deliberation she selected a hydrangea and we returned to pot it up and it now has pride of place in her front garden.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b>Sunday 14 April 2019</b></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Geneviève's brother Yves arrived back in Caen today, returning from visiting his son and family in Dubai. He has recently sold his house in Caen and has moved to Millau where we hope to drop in on our travels south. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Monday 15 April 2019</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our itinerary was only decided last thing, so it was a pleasure that we could arrange for our friend Claire to come over for tea in the afternoon and we were able to catch up on the developments with her children Marc and Katie, who had exchanged visits with our children Neil and Kate a quarter of a century ago. In the evening the dreadful fire in Notre-Dame was picked up by Yves on his mobile phone. We watched it live on television in disbelief.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
We gathered around the television, incredulous that this massive stone building in the heart of Paris was burning as we watched! Even over the 14 years of our recent travels we have visited the church several times and I (Jill) can recollect the sense of awe entering through its massive doors as a six year old child. To see the tall spire burn and fall was stomach churning, even though it is only a later addition - an inspiration by the then minister for public monuments, Violet le Duc. Even if the spire is never restored it won’t seriously detract from the original building. Below are some pictures and reflections gathered together from other visits we have made to Notre Dame during our travels since retirement.</span><br />
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The disaster set us hunting through our blogs for our own visits to Notre-Dame across the years,<br />
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</center><center></center><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013 it was the 850th anniversary of the cathedral of Notre Dame. To celebrate, new bells had been cast and were on display standing in the main aisle of the cathedral, making an impressive site. Each one was huge, even the smallest weighing over a ton while the largest weighed nearer five tons. They were cast in Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy, about which the region is duly proud. Each bell had been given a name, usually that of the godparent. Apparently all church bells have godparents who have paid substantially towards the cost of casting. The existing bells had lost their tone over the years, becoming cracked and harsh. The new ones aimed to recapture the original sound. Quasimodo would have been delighted and also relieved to hear that the bells survived the fire unscathed. </div><br />
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New bells, Notre Dame, Paris</center><br />
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Bell Anne Geneviève, Notre Dame, Paris</center><br />
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Notre Dame. The bridge in the foreground is smothered in </center><center>locked padlocks intended as tokens of love, Paris</center><span style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</span> <span style="text-align: justify;">In 2014 people were queuing in the rain to visit Notre-Dame, gleaming white rather than the grimy black of earlier visits.</span><br />
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<center></center><div style="text-align: justify;">In October 2015 Ian visited Paris for a conference and wrote on 25th: "My last full day in Paris, which I started with a very strong morning coffee at a brass topped table in the exotic Centre Islamique, in the same complex as the main mosque, and continued across to the Ile Saint Louis, closed to traffic this Sunday, with a wonderful early morning view of Notre-Dame and the Ile de la Cité." This view could be seen with flames raging across the roof less than four years later.</div><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Before moving on from Caen, together with our core of friends from Caen Libraries, we enjoyed lunch at the home of Marie Françoise in the heart of the city overlooking the towers of the church of St. Jacques.</span> Benedicte, Odile and Gaston were also invited. Over a wonderful meal we talked of Notre-Dame, Brexit, the state of libraries and also caught up on each others news.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wednesday 17 April 2019 </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We spent several days in Caen on our arrival and each day was a delight despite the sad thought that this could possibly be our final visit. Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-82212853634110196842018-12-14T09:08:00.004-08:002018-12-14T09:19:19.343-08:00Returning home<b>Wantage, Newbury, Andover and Wilton </b><br />
Our report on Oxford completes our notes. We could be home in three hours. However, we were ahead of ourselves so decided to return via Andover and Salisbury in the hope of seeing friends along the way.<br />
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At Wantage we stopped to explore and found it charming. In the museum, which is very well managed and crowded with interest, we chatted with local people using the cafe/community centre for coffees or early lunches. Community hubs are to be found in many of the little towns and villages we have explored and are a valued asset to their community. Libraries may sadly have disappeared in many towns as free centres of knowledge, education and learning, but they are thriving as places for local activities, run by volunteers, and are bringing communities together again, despite, or perhaps because of, the increasingly difficult economic times people, particularly in small rural towns, are currently living through. We spent far longer than intended exploring the museum with its fascinating rural artifacts and coverage of local crafts, industries and businesses in a bygone age. Around the town we found a statue of Alfred the Great, born in Wantage in 849. Outside the museum is a bust of the poet John Betjeman who lived with his wife and family in Wantage from 1951 to 1972.<br />
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Alfred the Great. Statue. Wantage. Oxfordshire.</center><br />
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The poet John Betjeman, Wantage. Oxfordshire. </center><br />
At Newbury we also stopped to briefly explore the main street with its Corn Exchange, Town Hall and canal.<br />
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Canal at Newbury. Berkshire. </center><br />
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Church tower from the canal. Newbury. Berkshire.</center><br />
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Canal at Newbury, Berkshire. </center><br />
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Town hall. Newbury, Berkshire.</center><br />
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Corn Exchange, Newbury. Berkshire</center><br />
Finally we made our way to Andover hoping to see friends Lesley and David. They, it transpired were somewhere with their campervan up in Denmark however, so we parked for a few hours in the town to explore. We are familiar with Andover but have never really devoted any time to exploring it. It merits a visit having a pleasant market place and an excellent museum. This latter occupied us for longer than expected. Such delightful museums invariably do. <br />
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River, Andover. Hampshire.</center><br />
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Town Mills, Andover. Hampshire</center><br />
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Town Hall, Andover, Hampshire.</center><br />
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Mosaic in the market place, Andover. Hampshire</center><br />
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War Memorial, Andover. Hampshire</center><br />
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Andover. Hampshire.</center><br />
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Andover museum, Hampshire.</center><br />
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Andover museum, Hampshire. </center><br />
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Andover museum Hampshire.</center><br />
Eventually we left, to arrive with Rosemary in Wilton, near Salisbury, before dark. Next morning we joined her and Peter for lunch in the village before continuing home. Thus ends our 2018 travels around Britain.<br />
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Wilton. Wiltshire.</center><br />
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Wilton. Wiltshire.</center><br />
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Italianate Church, 1840-1845, Wilton. Wiltshire.</center><br />
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Italianate Church, interior, Wilton. </center><br />
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Tomb in the Italianate Church, Wilton. Wiltshire. </center><br />
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Italianate Church, Wilton. Wiltshire.</center><br />
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Italianate Church, Wilton. Wiltshire. </center><br />
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Italianate Church,Wilton. Wiltshire.</center><br />
Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-65403242881536586672018-12-14T06:44:00.000-08:002018-12-14T07:35:03.511-08:00Oxford<b>Sunday 7th October 2018, Bletchington, near Oxford</b><br />
Yesterday was WET! We woke to a fine mizzle which grew heavier throughout the day. It was also bitterly cold and miserable, a complete contrast to the warmth of the previous day in Cambridge.<br />
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We drove on southwards. At Milton Keynes we decided not to stop as it was teeming down and the town seemed nothing but identical roundabouts and roadside verges. At Buckingham though we stopped. It seemed rather a pleasant little town, famed primarily for its own private, fee paying university. It was their open day for new students but we became absorbed in the town and decided not to cut our visit short attempting to fit in too much. Besides, private university or not, we suspected nobody would really assume we were aspiring students hoping to be awarded a degree in Hospitality Management or Manicure and Economics.<br />
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The town struck us as welcoming, clean, interesting and far nicer than we expected. Parking cost 50p for three hours during which time we saw most of what the town had to offer, including a weekly street market, the parish church and the town's historic prison with a free display of owls for the local children. Both owls and children looked decidedly fed up with the cold and the wet! We also enjoyed lunch in a bustling little vintage cafe managed by three delightful young waitresses before continuing our journey to the campsite we have been using for the past couple of nights. <br />
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Buckingham Chantry. Buckingham. </center><center><br />
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Old Gaol. Buckingham. </center><br />
We were so cold and fed up with driving in pouring rain along unfamiliar roads with countless roundabouts, where too frequently we got into the wrong lane, that we arrived here with considerable relief. It's a very nice site, more reasonably priced than many we've used and offering free wifi that actually works properly!<br />
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This morning, following instructions from the campsite manager, we drove to the Oxford “Park and Ride”. Here our troubles began in earnest. There were height restrictions and Modestine was too tall by 1 cm to pass under the barrier. The parking area was huge and we searched for a parking place for overheight vehicles. We found one okay but ... it was kept locked on Sundays! The only place she'd fit was the parking for the station rather than the buses, administered by a different company! Having parked we then discovered the only way to pay was by phone. We are useless with mobiles and only have a "pay as you go". I rang the displayed number for queries and got an automated voice when I needed a human. It seems I needed to download an app in order to pay! In any case I cannot see my screen properly in sunlight and ended up in a complete muddle. I was eventually told by an automated voice to hang up and they would hold my details so I could ring them back and continue to payment once I'd downloaded the necessary app. I was a furious and quivering wreck by this time and was all set to give up and drive away. Ian is of stronger stuff than me though. We planned to visit Oxford and visit it we would! We left a note in the car asking them to email us letting us know what we owed and how to make payment - if they could expect us to use their method of payment we could expect them to use ours. We told the bus driver we'd been unable to park properly as the over-height parking area was locked and there was nobody human to contact. He said it happened and not to worry. So we got on the bus and have spent a really full and enjoyable day in Oxford. On our return we again tried unsuccessfully to sort out payment and even discovered a machine intended to accept real money! Relieved we attempted to pay. Up shot a message informing us the machine was out of order and to pay by phone! So we gave up and left. We will probably receive a fine. I know the world is changing but it's the first time we've experienced this situation and we just do not use phone technology. Earlier we’d used a cafe in town and almost everyone around us was busy communicating on their phone, ignoring their table companion who was usually also tapping away on their phone. Were they texting each other across the table? It seems mobiles are destroying human contact and direct speech. A human would have solved our problem this morning immediately and we would not have had our day spoilt because we hadn't discovered how to downloaded the free app from Oxford City Council! (To date we have heard nothing more. Probably they are as terrified of speaking to people who don't understand phones, as we are of those that do!)<br />
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However, we had a very good day in Oxford, once we forgot our traumatic experience. It is years since we have been into the city, though when Neil was a student at Keble we would occasionally drive up to see him for the weekend, and when he and Jeev were living in Didcot we'd frequently visit the city. Both Ian and Neil were at Keble and the college has many happy memories for both of them.<br />
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Like Cambridge most of the colleges are no longer generally open to the public. More though allow free visits than at Cambridge and all that we looked at allow visitors into the quads without needing to pay. Below are a selection of some of the colleges we saw today. Many we have visited in the past, when colleges were more laid-back about visitors. We also visited the Bodleian Library, the Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre - where Ian and Neil accepted their master's degrees together. Ian had never bothered to collect his, but when Neil was to receive his, Ian joined him and we took his elderly mum to see the two presentations, so it was really more for her sake than Ian's. It was also at the Sheldonian that Neil and Jeev were presented with their doctorates together, Neil for chemistry, Jeev for biochemistry. Then we shared the happy event with Jeev's parents, shortly before Neil and Jeev married. So the university holds many happy and important memories for us as a family.<br />
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Around the city a half marathon was being run by some 8,500 people from the city and the university. One even ran dressed as a huge, inflated chicken while another was seventy eight years old and we joined in the cheering as he crossed the finish line in excellent time. The chicken also finished not long behind him. There was a good sense of integration around the city this afternoon as Town and Gown rubbed shoulders, cheering on the runners.<br />
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Half marathon. Oxford. </center><br />
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Half marathon, Oxford. </center><br />
Ian wanted to look in at the Bodleian Library as the chicken run passed by.<br />
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Bodleian Library. Chicken marathon. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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Bodleian Library. Five orders. Oxford. </center><br />
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Bodleian Library. William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580 - 1630) </center><center>Chancellor of the University when Bodley's library was founded. Oxford.</center><br />
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Bodleian Library. Parry exhibition. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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Bodleian Library. Parry exhibition. Oxford. </center><center><br />
</center>Below are a selection of the many photos of Oxfords principal parks and civic buildings.<br />
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Castle. Oxford. </center><br />
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Westgate. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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Cherwell River. Punts. Oxford. </center><br />
Below are some of the colleges and University buildings we visited today. Many sparked memories for Ian who had friends in several of them during his time in Oxford. He is even today in touch with some, while others remain life-long friends. They can share his memories here.<br />
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Oxford Union. Gladstone Room. Oxford. </center><br />
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Christ Church College. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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Merton College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Merton College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Magdalen College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Magdalen College. Oxford.</center><center> </center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihfpxniwzSYBWu3ESqosnZzhzVlTROa8n2oWi3a1sASK3A3GikAlpDfcCm4nzwt_KOG8EGtRKXFD9vpUfD4WPeg7GY1yVuSdhfDfSizKg_HJGUbepZjFSh4k4UtDvKkOtKB9ycH9z6X7o/s1600/2018-10-07k.jpg"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihfpxniwzSYBWu3ESqosnZzhzVlTROa8n2oWi3a1sASK3A3GikAlpDfcCm4nzwt_KOG8EGtRKXFD9vpUfD4WPeg7GY1yVuSdhfDfSizKg_HJGUbepZjFSh4k4UtDvKkOtKB9ycH9z6X7o/s320/2018-10-07k.jpg" /></a><br />
Examination Schools. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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Merton College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Oriel College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Queen's College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Saint Edmund Hall. Oxford. </center><br />
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New College. Oxford. </center><br />
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New College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Bridge of Sighs. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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All Souls College. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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All Souls College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Radcliffe Camera. Oxford. </center><br />
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Wadham College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Saint John's College. Gardens. Oxford. </center><br />
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Saint John's College. Oxford.</CENTER><br />
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Saint John's College. Oxford. </CENTER><br />
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Taylorian Institution. Oxford.</CENTER><br />
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Balliol College. Oxford.</CENTER><br />
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Balliol College. Oxford. Oxfordshire. </CENTER><br />
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Trinity College. Oxford. </CENTER><br />
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Clarendon Building. Oxford. </CENTER><br />
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Sheldonian Theatre. Oxford.</CENTER><br />
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We also managed to fit in a visit to our favourite museums, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum. They are housed together and the building itself is part of the museum. I mean, the columns that hold up the building are each from a different area of Britain and are examples of the stone to be mined or quarried there. The building is an outstanding example of Victorian architecture which made use of the new materials available. The main gallery for example, has a framework of cast iron, the very latest material at the time of the building's construction. Within it has rocks dating back to the formation of the earth, some 4.5 billion years old, right through to a skull of Tyrannosaurus Rex, skeletons of chimpanzees and other primates and stuffed tigers, brown bears, armadillos and other fauna, even a dodo, all resident in the museum from Victorian times. Upstairs in the galleries there are examples of beetles, spiders, bees, cockroaches and many other creatures from the insect world. Behind the University museum is the Pitt Rivers museum, an eclectic collection of objects, gathered together and crowded into display cabinets. The museum contents form a fascinating collection of one person's enthusiasm to collect anything and everything. There are musical instruments, tribal head dresses, weapons, tools, clothing, writing materials, ceramics, information about mining, smelting and minerals. It's impossible not to become absorbed in the properties of teflon or gypsum, even if you don't know the first thing about the subject!<br />
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University Museum. Exterior. Oxford. </center><br />
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University Museum. Main hall. Oxford. </center><br />
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University Museum. Tyrannosaurus Rex. Oxford. </center><center><br />
</center>At Keble Ian mentioned he was an alumnus but didn't have his card with him. No problem. They let us in and we wandered around the college grounds and Ian recalled which had been his room, where they dined, had seminars etc. All the things elderly scholars remember when they think back on their youth, fifty years ago when they were young and convinced the world was their oyster. Then, everything was ahead of them. Now it was a case of looking fondly back and wondering where those years disappeared to. Ian studied modern languages and generally he has retained his interest in academia without dedicating his life to it. Neil studied chemistry and it has remained central to his career. He now works for BP and continues to be involved on a daily basis with his life's passion.<br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Exterior. Oxford. </center><center><br />
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Keble College. Great Hall. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Library. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Great Hall. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. The light of the world by William Holman Hunt, Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Oxford. </center><br />
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Keble College. Chapel. Oxford. </center>Before leaving the city we walked through the University Park and round to Norham Gardens. Here Neil and Jeev first met, both lodging in a wonderful old house that formed a small nunnery. With so much empty space the elderly nuns decided to diversify and welcomed students to occupy the empty space and shift the furniture around for them - particularly their grand piano! They deliberately created a diverse mix of students from different faiths and covering a wide range of academic studies. There was a good ethnic mix of students from different colleges and a roughly equal numbers of male and female students. <br />
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Neil and Jeev married out in Sri Lanka in 2003. On their return the nuns held a celebration and blessing in the grounds of the convent for their families and friends, particularly those unable to make the journey out to Sri Lanka for the wedding. The sisters were superb, blessing their future lives together and proving dramatically with a symbolic outdoor chemical experiment, that two very different substances coming together act as a catalyst on each other to produce something quite spectacular! Alas, the convent no longer exists and it is probable that the nuns, elderly then, have also passed on. Their memory though remains very fresh in our hearts.<br />
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Norham Gardens. Nunnery. Oxford. </center><br />
We found the house, still huge and beautiful, now owned by the University but looking much as we remembered. We’ve all moved on though and the magic has gone.<br />
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Weary but delighted with our day we returned to the same campsite for another night. Despite the stress of this morning it has been a very good day.Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-62529272928588535522018-12-12T07:55:00.001-08:002018-12-12T09:43:05.007-08:00Cambridge<b>Friday, 5th October 2018, Cambridge</b><br />
To be technically accurate we are camped four miles outside of Cambridge where we are staying for a second night. This morning we decided not to bother driving to the Park and Ride to leave Modestine and take the bus into Cambridge. Instead we left her on the campsite, walked down into the village and caught the hourly bus into the city. Not only did I not need to worry about driving and parking, we could use our free bus passes! It all worked perfectly and we staggered back this evening exhausted after being on our feet all day.<br />
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As we stood waiting in the village street for the hourly bus into Cambridge to arrive, two ladies also waiting, began chatting about the Cambridge local history society meeting they'd recently attended and just what a fantastic local historian Mike Petty was. Ian eventually could keep quiet no longer and told them that he used to sit on the same national committee as the person they were discussing and he agreed completely with everything they'd been saying. How strange but gratifying to be a couple of hundred miles from home and to overhear nice things being said about a work colleague! <br />
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We have visited Cambridge once before in our lives but our memory of it is lost in the mists of time. I vaguely recall walking from Cambridge through meadows and arriving in Granchester. Today the bus passed through Granchester on the way to Cambridge and we recognised nothing. Not only did the church clock not stand at ten to three, we didn't even see the church! The village pub is though named The Rupert Brook in recognition of his place as a war poet and his deeply emotional poem, written during the First World War out in France, when thinking back on his homeland here in Granchester.<br />
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We were dropped at the bus station in the city centre and swept up into the crowds of tourists from around the world. Everywhere students were bowling along at speed on their bikes, rushing off to lectures or through the parks, up and over the hump-back bridges across the river Cam. We peered in at the entrance gates of various colleges, where we could. Now though it seems all the colleges charge to permit ordinary tourists to see inside the grounds. Some have a barrier across so that you can at least see the quad' though nothing more. Charges vary from £4 for some of the lesser known colleges up to £10 per adult at Kings and St. Johns. Most were closed to visitors anyway today. <br />
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Ian insisted we go to the University Library where the high tower is apparently filled with around 1,000,000 books of lesser renown. He remembers visiting the library with his fellow Sheffield library school colleagues and discovering the tower was actually crowded with every Enid Blyton work she'd ever written, deposited there under national copyright law.<br />
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We walked through the parks, crossed the wooden bridges across the Cam, watched students punting on the river - where Ian explained the technique to me and commented with disdain that in Cambridge they punt from the back of the boat whilst he and fellow punters in Oxford always punted from the front. Don't mention it to him but personally I thought it looked far more sensible to punt from the back!<br />
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We stopped at a pleasant coffee shop for a baguette and coffee, and to read the Guardian and the Times, provided for customer's use, before gathering our tired limbs together and returning to the fray. The weather has been very warm which leaves us rather weary when we are walking all the time. <br />
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Mid-afternoon I felt so tired we headed for the park and sat for a rest in the Princess Diana memorial garden, amidst the rose bushes. On a nearby bench sat a voluble Italian lady chatting on her phone, presumably to her boyfriend in Italy. Suddenly, from behind her back appeared a large, pale ferret! She managed to scream and jump to her feet, but without dropping her phone and we watched in fascination as a workman in overalls assured her it wasn't anything to worry about, he was simply taking it for a walk and it had hidden itself under a rose bush! He then, to our further astonishment, explained it again in fluent Italian as she'd not understood him in English! What, we wondered, would her boyfriend in Lucca, still on the line, have made of it all? She was still talking to him on her phone when we left to return to the bus station, and the Englishman had finished crawling around in the bushes making encouraging noises intended to lure a reluctant ferret into a navy blue bag. When the creature was eventually recaptured and was safely zipped away its owner swung the bag over his shoulder and wandered off to catch his bus home. I was rather relieved he wasn't travelling on ours!Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-81417997032937944102018-12-12T06:56:00.000-08:002018-12-12T09:37:54.543-08:00King's Lynn and Ely<b>Thursday 4th October 2018, Cambridge</b><br />
Yesterday we spent the day in King's Lynn. It is a very pleasant little market town on the edge of the River Ouse. The town was one of the members of the Hanseatic league - a sort of 14th/16th century free trade association of mainly major coastal cities around the Baltic in Germany, and in Scandinavia, as far north as Bergen. King's Lynn was once one of Britain's most important and influential trading cities and was a wealthy and attractive town. It is still charming today with its 18th century brick buildings, its wharves, waterfront houses and regular town markets. It has a customs house on the quayside and streets of affluent merchant houses, many with attractive porticoes. It has an original Carnegie library built in the local stone - a sort of reddish coloured sandstone that darkens over time to the colour of gingerbread. Used in small, brick sized pieces it make an attractive and distinctive building style. <br />
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Trinity Guildhall. 1420s. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Corn Exchange. 1854. Tuesday Market Place. King's Lynn. Norfolk. </center>
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Saint Nicholas Chapel. West window. King's Lynn. Norfolk. </center>
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Saint Nicholas Chapel. Thomas Greene, King's Lynn, Norfolk</center>
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Saint Nicholas Chapel. Monument. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Saint Nicholas Chapel. Porch. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Saint Nicholas Chapel. Tower. King's Lynn. Norfolk</center>
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Red Mount Chapel. 1483-1509. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Guannock Gate. Leading to Vancouver Garden. King's Lynn. Norfolk. </center>
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Public Library. Carnegie building. 1905? King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Greyfriars Tower. With war memorial. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Minster. Braunche brass. 1364. King's Lynn. Norfolk</center>
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Minster. Braunche brass. Rubbing. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Trinity Guildhall. With Minster, Saturday Market Place. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Marriott's warehouse. 1580s. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Hanse House. 1475. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Custom House. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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Anonymous handbills. W, B.Bullen, 1837. King's Lynn. Norfolk.</center>
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We found a campsite a few miles outside of the town for the night and this morning made our way towards Cambridge. Along the way we stopped at Downham Market. This proved to be a pleasant little town, big enough to have everything one needed in the way of supermarkets, even a small department store, schools, offices, law courts and plenty of free parking! It even had a Wetherspoons, as usual in one of the towns most interesting buildings with historic photos and articles pertaining to the property displayed on the walls.<br />
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Clock tower. Downham Market. Norfolk.</center>
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So-called Priory. Downham Market. Norfolk. </center>
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We continued to Ely across the flat landscape of Cambridgeshire, it cathedral visible long before we reached the city. <br />
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Ely - the Isle of eels?- lies a few miles from Cambridge amidst the canals of the Fens. It stands on a boss surrounded by the flat wheat fields and straight hedgerows of Cambridgeshire. In the harshness of extreme winter weather the canals may still freeze over and it may still be possible to skate along the canals from Ely to Cambridge as used to happen. It is an exciting and imaginative image in my mind recalled from “Tom’s Midnight Garden” by Phillipa Pearce, an exciting fantasy novel written for teenagers in the gentler age of my youth. The shopping area is compact, with a daily market and a couple of streets of shops as well as a modern shopping precinct. There are the usual assortment of charity shops and second-hand bookshops as well as several very nice looking tea shops. Certainly there was plenty to interest us in the cathedral and around the town as well as beautiful gardens surrounding the cathedral.<br />
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Coaching sign. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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Cathedral. East end. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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House in precincts. Georgian with Sun insurance plaque. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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We parked within walking distance of the centre and spent much of the afternoon exploring the cathedral, free today although a charge is usually levied. As there were 600+ schoolchildren to share the cathedral with today charges were waived for everyone else. The children were all models of good behaviour and spent their time in various groups in different parts of the cathedral. We gather the theme was the end of the First World War. At one point all 600 came together and stood in awed silence as the last post was sounded and they were given a talk about soldiers from Ely who "for their (the young people's) tomorrow had given their today." As the familiar, haunting sound of the bugle filled the cathedral, lights simulating thousands of scarlet poppies rained down from the cathedral's vaulted roof onto the respectfully bowed young heads of local school children gathered below.<br />
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Cathedral. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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Almshouses. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cromwell's house. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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Old palace. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Nave. With children before remembrance service. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Lantern. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Spiral staircase. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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The good and the great from Ely's clergy are entombed or represented throughout the cathedral, some dating back to the 13th century. We found a plaque commemorating Bishop Thomas Goodrich (1494-1554) whose Anglican zeal during the Reformation was primarily responsible for the destruction of the statues, carvings and stained glass in the Lady Chapel and elsewhere in the Cathedral. He opposed the Catholics and ordered that all the human faces represented in carvings throughout the cathedral should be destroyed. In the Lady Chapel the exquisite carvings covering the walls and niches have had the heads hacked off from every saint, angel or monk as a backlash against Catholicism. Additionally the stained glass in the breath-taking Lady Chapel was smashed and wantonly destroyed. Thomas Goodrich was also responsible for the destruction of any image or statue of St Etheldreda, to whom the Cathedral was dedicated. Today there is only a modern statue of her. Later, when Queen Mary came to the throne, the bishop reputedly turned his coat and accepted the Catholic faith, thus retaining his Bishopric. It was ever thus back in those political times when the Church wielded so much force and the Bishops were all-powerful.<br />
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Cathedral. Steward, Robert. Monument. 1571. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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Cathedral. Tiptoft family monument. 1450? Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. William de Kilkenny. Bishop. 1256. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Lady Chapel. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Lady Chapel. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Lady Chapel. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Lady Chapel. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Saint Etheldreda. Statue. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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Cathedral. West front. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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In the entrance to the building is a black and white marble maze. Here, in mediaeval times, would-be pilgrims unable to afford the time or money to travel to Jerusalem could follow the marble maze to reach the centre. This apparently would give them the same benefits and indulgences they would have received had they been able to make the real pilgrimage to the Holy Land.<br />
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Cathedral. Ceiling. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Labyrinth. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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Cathedral. Nave. Ely. Cambridgeshire.</center>
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Unrelated to the ecclesiastical purposes of the Cathedral, we were delighted to see that the building is heated by several huge Gurney stoves that give out very effective warmth from the many fins in its construction through which hot water is pumped. Sir Goldsworthy Gurney was a Cornishman from Bude in the 19th century, primarily working with steam power. His stoves are still found regularly in both civic and religious buildings. We also noted one fairly recently in Hereford Cathedral.<br />
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Cathedral. Gurney heater. Ely. Cambridgeshire. </center>
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We walked back to Modestine and drove on down to Cambridge where we are currently camped a few miles outside of the city. Tomorrow we hope to make our way into the centre by bus, leaving Modestine to enjoy the sunshine in peace. The lady here at the campsite showed us a photo she has of a Romahome rally she hosted on this large and pleasant campsite back in 1999. It looked as if every Romahome ever produced converged here for the rally. There were hundreds of them! Modestine rolled off the production line on the Isle of Wight in 1998 and her previous owner used to bring her to all the Romahome rallies, so Modestine herself will almost certainly have been one of the many white vehicles in the photo the owner keeps in the campsite office!<br />
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<br />Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-24381545698867864662018-12-08T08:21:00.000-08:002018-12-08T10:57:39.053-08:00Family and Rutland<b>Tuesday 2nd October 2018, Greetham, Rutland</b><br />
We have been staying with Neil and family in Beverley for the past four nights. With such warm and sunny weather we have been out with the grandchildren visiting country parks, exploring the villages of the East Riding, gathering fruits from the hedgerows and listening to Deyvi enthusing about the residential course organised for those in their final year at her primary school. From being terrified of leaving their families for the first time when they set off, the youngsters returned bursting with excitement and new found friendships. It seems to have been a rite of passage for them all. Deyvi insists she went a child and returned as an adult. That's pushing it by any stretch of the imagination! She's as zany, gabbling and obsessed with things as most ten/eleven year olds and chatters on incessantly about Minecraft, the chemical elements, what her friends say and do and how stupid all the boys in the class are. We adults quickly discovered how to zone it out and her chatter flowed on unabated until we could eventually stop it with lemon drizzle cake as we paused for coffee and cake in the parish church of Warten which we passed through when out walking with Neil and Deyvi! She is though, a typical youngster soon to become a teenager and will doubtless eventually be extruded from the education system as a thinking young adult we can all feel incredibly proud of!<br />
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Neil, Deyvi and Jill, Londesborough. Yorkshire.</center>
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We also found the opportunity to visit friends living in nearby Hessle on the banks of the Humber estuary. At this point the delicate white ribbon that is the road-bridge, flies out high across the wide estuary, supported on a cat's cradle of delicate wires, linking the East Riding of Yorkshire with Lincolnshire. It really is beautiful!<br />
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This morning we left Beverley behind and set off southwards. I suppose we are gradually making our way home but having spent less time than we realised in Scotland we are in no hurry to get back. So we decided to turn east somewhere around Nottingham and this evening finds us near the shores of Rutland Water. Rutland, the smallest county in Britain, is very pleasant. Neither of us recalls visiting before but it has been very good. In Melton Mowbray we ate raised pork pies for lunch - that is their contribution to Britain's culinary heritage and they are determined nobody will pass through the town without being aware of the fact.<br />
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Actually, Ian has a friend, formerly a colleague from the Library Association's Local History Group committee, whom he hoped to see. She is retired and thriving in Rutland, busily involved with her local museum. Unfortunately we missed her when we finally found her home, having been unable to forewarn her of our brief presence in the neighbourhood. In Oakham though, a couple of the residents came out of one of the houses when I parked. I expected to be informed that I was contravening some parking by-law. Instead they launched into a tale of delight at seeing a Romahome exactly like theirs and wanted to swap notes about travels and exploits. They even invited us in to their home and gave us their name and address so we could drop by any time we were in the area! It was very kind and gratifying but unlikely we will be this way again as it is the first, and perhaps the last, time we have ever explored this part of Britain!<br />
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Time to revert to sleeping back in Modestine this evening. It was good to have experienced solid walls and a roof for a few nights. Such opportunities prevent us from becoming completely feral!<br />
<br />Jill, Ian and Modestinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934103096194951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791034672525377561.post-51429948627176218882018-12-08T08:08:00.000-08:002018-12-08T11:07:19.563-08:00Barnard Castle and Helmsbury<b>Wednesday 26th September 2018, Barnard Castle, County Durham</b><br />
Today has been spent entirely in and around Barnard Castle and it has proved to be every bit as friendly and delightful a town as we'd always imagined. The shops on the main street are still predominately small, individual enterprises though inevitably chain stores are creeping in. There are individual bakeries, hardware shops and cafes, but there is also a Co-op and a Morrisons. A short distance outside the town, with its narrow stone bridge and wide cattle market lies the remains of Barnard Castle. We've not yet visited though as we have been captivated by the town's unlikely tourist attraction, the magnificent Bowes Museum. We arrived before opening time this morning and have spent most of the day exploring its galleries.<br />
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Market cross. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Market. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Bowes Museum. Exterior. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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The specially commissioned 19th century French chateau was built to be a museum, commissioned from a French architect by the museum's founders, John and Josephine Bowes. John Bowes married a French actress and it was her drive and enthusiasm that led to the creation of the museum. They had no children so developing the museum became their life's work. The magnificent chateau stands in the unlikely setting of a north country estate, in lovely grounds just minutes from the town centre of a stone-built moorland town. The museum founders are connected to the Bowes-Lyon family. The late Queen Mother was a Bowes-Lyon before she married into the house of Windsor.<br />
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Bowes Museum. Front entrance. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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The museum was established, set up and left in trust to the nation. It's collections are rich in paintings, textiles, silver and metals, with furniture, sculptures, porcelain and ceramics spanning five centuries.It has the largest collection of Spanish paintings in Britain outside of London, including an El Greco -"The Tears of St. Peter". It also has a couple of Canalettos and works by Dutch and Italian masters. Josephine Bowes was herself an excellent painter and there are a number of her works around the museum.<br />
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Bowes Museum. Pereda. Tobias restoring his father's sight. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Van Dyck. Olivia Boteler Porter. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Canaletto. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Picture gallery. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Below are some of the hundreds of exhibits in the museum.<br />
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Bowes Museum. Library clock. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Bowes Museum. Siamese twin calf. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Ebor head pot. From Piercebridge. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Botanical cabinet of Mary Eleanor Bowes. c.1780. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Boy's dress c.1780. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Bowes Museum. Marquetry work for Louis XIV. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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The star of the museum is an 18th century automated silver swan that is activated daily at 2pm, moving its head and neck very realistically to music as it catches silver "fish" in a silver "lake". <br />
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Bowes Museum. Silver swan automaton. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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Currently there is also a temporary exhibition, called "The Catwalk"about women's fashion from 1960s to the 1990s. In fact it was purely about the Catwalk and the shock of the new with ridiculous fashions that nobody would ever wear anywhere but on a catwalk. Try crossing the road in some of these garments and you'd never make it to the opposite pavement! So huge are the sleeves they'd block your vision!<br />
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Bowes Museum. Catwalking exhibition. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Bowes Museum. Catwalking exhibition. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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It was a luxurious building with thick pile carpets that were soft and bouncy to walk on. The views from the windows were lovely, overlooking the formal gardens to the front while to the side could be glimpsed the church in the grounds where the founders are buried. They wished to lie in the grounds of the museum they had established. Initially this was not possible and they were buried on the family estate at Gibside, a few miles distant. However, in 1928 they were moved to their present location in the grounds of the small church built in a corner of the museum gardens.<br />
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Catholic church. Bowes tomb. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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There is a very good cafe in the museum where we had lunch. The best croque-monsieur ever. They could even teach the French something there! The coffee was also excellent though a bit too laid-back with the speed of service. Before we realised it the entire day had gone. However, we did see every exhibit in the museum, some items in great detail. It does make remembering dates and details difficult however so either go to the museum yourselves or look up on the website for further details.<br />
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While waiting for the museum to open this morning - we arrived while a morning fire drill was taking place - we wandered off into town for half an hour, where we discovered a book sale in the community hall. Books were being sold to raise funds for the Library! They were not library books but we were told they were donated books being sold off to support the running of the library and the maintenance of professional staff. The volunteers have been adamant that they will not run the library for the town as this would take away people's jobs. So they do what they can to raise funds to support library projects and to ensure the library is staffed by professionals. We where touched and delighted that they recognised that there is actually more to running a library service than goodwill, enthusiasm and an ability to wield a rubber date stamp! The responsibility of a local authority to provide an efficient library service is actually enshrined in law, yet throughout the country the intellectual and cultural needs of the population are being continuously and relentlessly eroded.<br />
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Having bought a copy of <i>Gormenghast</i> we continued to the library coffee morning where we added to the tiny profits by joining a dozen or so local residents in tea drinking and scone eating. Maybe our effort kept a librarian gainfully employed for an extra few minutes!<br />
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This evening we have still not managed to make contact with Vally but Neil says our grandchildren are eager to see Grandad and Grandma. Indi misunderstood the news when Neil relayed it and thought we were arriving immediately, so got up from bed and clambered downstairs to greet us! So it will be good to be back with the family while we are still on our travels. That's a bonus with blogging for Britain!<br />
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<b>Thursday 27th September 2018</b><br />
It has been a really nice day, both with the weather which has been positively balmy, and with the happy activities of the day.<br />
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Ian made a final attempt to contact Vally and was successful! Apparently she got home late last night and found our message but felt it was too late to ring us then. In any case, with our phonophobia we'd not have picked up the message anyway. We receive so few calls it doesn't seem worth the effort of learning how to use all the bells and whistles. On the other hand, people don't bother to contact us as we never answer! Anyway, problem solved and we did see Vally after all. First we popped into Barnard Castle to look at Barnard Castle. The actual castle I mean, rather than the town. It sits slap bang in the middle of the old market town which has grown up over the centuries around the hill upon which it rests, its ruined walls towering over the town which stands on the banks of the river Tees.<br />
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Castle. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Castle. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Castle. Barnard Castle. Durham. </center>
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Bridge. Barnard Castle. Durham.</center>
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We then made our way to Vally's home where we found it warm enough to sit out in her lovely garden with our coffee and the neighbouring cat. It was good to catch up on news and gossip. Vally was at Sheffield library school with Ian and other friends who turn up in this blog from time to time and live either in Britain or over in mainland Europe. Most of you from Sheffield will have burning ears as you read this. Unfortunately for us Chris was off on a working trip to Washington so we missed his quirky sense of humour. After swapping news and gossip Vally valiantly offered to raid her freezer for soup and rolls. We would have gone down into town together for lunch but she was waiting for the plumber to arrive. As usual, plumbers never come when expected and she was still waiting when we finally left. Thanks so much Vally, it was good to see you and update on events.<br />
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We drove east across Yorkshire and this evening we are camped near Pickering. We called off along the way to take a look at Riveaulx Abbey but decided it was too late in the day to visit. In any case, the view from the road produced a pretty good picture, though hopefully one day we will see it properly. Its ruined walls and arches stand isolated at the bottom of a steep valley, surrounded by woods. The window tracery looked beautiful with the evening light reflecting from the warm stone arches.<br />
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Abbey. Rievaulx. Yorkshire. </center>
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We passed through Helmsley, an attractive little town but crowded out with visitors even so late in the day and late in the season. We are only a few miles outside the town this evening so will return tomorrow before the crowds arrive. It's still warm and this evening and we have been sitting outside with mugs of tea. Unfortunately we are out of wine and I cannot become reconciled to the idea of paying UK prices for it. How we will survive in the future when/if we are restricted to three litres per person when we go abroad, I dread to imagine! Usually what we save on our wine goes a long way to paying the cost of our ferry crossing.<br />
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Market square. Helmsley. Yorkshire. </center>
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Castle. Helmsley. Yorkshire.</center>
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Castle. Helmsley. Yorkshire.</center>
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Castle. Helmsley. Yorkshire. </center>
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