Camino Stage 1: Day 3.1 Lunch in Raveau

 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 …

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Camino Stage 1: Day 2 la Grange Teillard to Chasnay 21 kms

 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 …

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Camino Stage 1: Day 1.2 Vézelay to La Grange Teillard – 30k

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 …

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Camino Stage 1: Day 1.1 Leaving Vézelay

Day 1 - Beginnings Lauds at 7am. Then breakfast. Then depart. The square at 06.45 I shall be humming Bunyan's Pilgrim Song.