G’day, you two….
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| Shane in Provence |
Our epistles from the south have
become infrequent as, our internet is only reliably supplied by McDonalds;A
funny episode today was using the 30 min free wi-fi from a tourist information
centre and trying to check some sites for messages etc only to have access to
three banned because of content! One of these sites was facebook!!
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La Roque-sur-Ceze
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A very pretty town 25 k nw of Avignon… has a lovely narrow bridge named after Charles
Martel
(whose reputation was mightily enhanced in
the (C9-10th) after thumping some touristy Moors from Spain in a battle near
Poitiers and effectively ending their holiday incursion/raids into France.
Apparently latter day French Muslims want to
build a Mosque on or near said battle site…. !!
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| Charles Martel Bridge |
Had a little trip to Orange and paid
exorbitantly to see “the best Roman Ampitheatre in Europe”…..( dunno what the Italians
think of that claim….) only to see lots of people reading, listening and
not looking at anything in particular.
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Ampitheatre Orange
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And on to Silvacane Abbey; a blissful harmony of
stone, proportion and light.
The acoustics in the refractory were
fan-bloody-tastic
“C” counted four reverberations on my Dominus
Vobiscum… Tony and Chris would love it.
It did make me wonder as to whether the monk
reading the texts during meal-times chanted in time to the chewing or was it
vice-versa?
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| Silvacane |
Thoronet Abbey followed, a long drive but in the
end worth it… this place had an exquisite sense of architectural rightness.
Everything seemed to be an extension of the quality in Silvacane, more austere
perhaps but extremely moving.
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Le Thoronet
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We travelled back through a thunderstorm.
Semi-trailers, thunder and lightning, 130 km/h muck, spray and zippy little
French cars….interesting, Petals.
Cheers,
Shane
Also to St.Cannat… C and H know all about that place….
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