Pentecost at Taizé
Linda has become quite the expert chauffeur (shown driving earlier this week), as evidenced this morning when we rose early to make the 90-minute journey to celebrate Pentecost with the Taizé Freres, an ecumenical order of monks who maintain a faith community, including a giant church, in the tiny village of Taizé.
As it happened last […]
Beau temps a Lhomont
While Linda made her way cross country on a local randonee, I headed out, with my more limited range, first to the crossroads with adjacent new-looking country house that mark the actual center of Lhomont and then back up the gentle hill that appoaches the Moulin from Montpont-en-Bresse.
The day was beautiful, and I walked […]
Potager at Pont de Vaux
It’s high spring in the Burgundy/Jura region, and we see many newly-planted potagers, or kitchen gardens tucked into various spaces - as seen here in the village of Pont de Vaux where we lunched and Linda shopped for granddaughter Grace. Not a lot of shops open this weekend of Armistice Day and Pentecost…
Cuisery
The village of Cuisery was the goal of this morning’s foray into the French countryside, both for lunch at one of its recommended restaurants “L’Atmosphere” and a walk through its “Village du Livres,” actually a street where nearly every shop is a bookseller.
One wonders about the viability of print businesses in the age of the […]