I have been home for four days. It is lovely to be back; I am incredibly fortunate to live where I do, and to have a very happy home and husband to return to. The ordinary demands of life were all there waiting for me - setting up the next part of my doctoral work, …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1 completed: Reflections after my return
Day 10: When planning the start of this pilgrimage, I decided to give myself a morning's rest before heading home. So I had a leisurely breakfast and then headed off to explore Chateauroux. Jardin Publique Eglise Saint-Martial The old town was delightful, the modern (19c and later) less so. I wanted to go to mass. …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 10 Chateauroux to Paris: Turning for home.
After lovely weather yesterday, I was hoping for a bit more of the same. So you can imagine what I thought when I saw this. However, despite moving my wet weather gear to accessible bits of my rucksack, the cloud lightened up and the day settled into being just overcast. Perfect for walking, in fact. …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 9 Neuvy-Pailloux to Chateauroux 25.5 kms
Day 6: St Etienne, Bourges The form of this stunning building is a single very lofty nave of thirteen bays with another five forming an apsidal end. There are no crossings at all: the nave and the apse are surrounded by a double aisle. The inner aisle is very tall and the outer one less …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 6.1 St Stephen’s Cathedral, Bourges
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
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