Day 3: Again, a misty start, but it seemed to hold the promise of something better later on. Breakfast at 8. Madame told me of her mother who had been born in Manchester, but who had ended up being married off and veiled in Lebanon, before escaping to Morocco (having been obliged to leave her …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 3.2 Chasnay to La Chapelle-Montlinard 22k
Day 3 - Lunch in Raveau. When all that is open is a patisserie! I think I would have preferred some bread and cheese, but I have so far passed no ordinary ships since Vezelay, so, being fairly ravenous (see what I did there!) I went into the only shop in the village. This yielded …
I slept like a log. The day dawned grey, damp and cool - like an English Bank Holiday. Excellent breakfast by my host. She was a theatrical scenery painter in Paris, but fled to the country with her musician partner some decades ago. She had a successful business making Hopi ear candles (for an avid …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 2 la Grange Teillard to Chasnay 21 kms
Day 1: The day started early. I was awake at 04.30, fiddling with this site. Got up at 06.30 in time for Lauds at 7 in the basilica. Lovers of Vézelay will be interested to know that there a big restoration project going on of the first four bays of the nave. So you enter …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 1.2 Vézelay to La Grange Teillard – 30k
Day 1 - Beginnings Lauds at 7am. Then breakfast. Then depart. The square at 06.45 I shall be humming Bunyan's Pilgrim Song.
It is so hard to describe anyone without reducing or pigeon-holing them. But, so that you have an idea about who I am, here are a few headlines.I am a retired Church of England priest. Husband, father, grandfather.Gay, political, activist.Musician, singer, theologian.Needleworker, cook, gardener.Wild swimmer, walker, naturist. I have been blessed with so much in …
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