The parish church of sleepy Lachapelle, dreaming deep in the green folds of rural south-west France, offers a hidden but seismic surprise to the casual and unsuspecting visitor. In all its humility, the apparently unremarkable, ancient, and respectable church from the outside is a flamboyant show-off on the inside: an ecclesiastical Liberace in full regalia […]
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Continue readingErrant in France My childhood summer holidays were dominated by long stifling drives imprisoned in hot cars around the camping and caravanning sites of the Var and the Cote d’Azur in the 1960s and 1970s. The only diversions I had from the back of the car on the way down from Calais were inventing games […]
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The Celtic tribe of the Gauls, choosing the site for Loudun several centuries before the creation of Christianity, named it Lugh-Dun, ‘a fortified hill dedicated to the God of Light’. In the Middle Ages, Loudun was located on the edge of three provinces: Poitou, Anjou, and Touraine. Long and dead-straight roads span like spokes of […]
Early this morning, in our house in the Tarn-et-Garonne, in southwest France, I awoke in the darkness. Not exactly unusual for me these days but I had an idea that although it was still very dark outside, it was close to dawn. I checked my watch: it was around 5.30am. Normally I only open […]