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.
I am about to start a pilgrimage walk. I am now fully retired and so have the chance to do this now that I don't sing from Thursday to Sunday every week of the school year. I have for longer than I can say wanted to follow the Camino, or the pilgrimage route across Western …
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