Sunday 3 May 2015

The Vicar Has No Tea But He Does Have a Devil

The worst has happened and we will need to come back post haste. Yes, we have run out of PG tip tea bags! We are making do with Twinings but it’s just not the same.
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Devilish Digits

After reading Holy Blood Holy Grail in the eighties I have always wanted to go to Rennes-Le-Chateau and today we did just that. It’s a stunning place and the church is fascinating. What other church has a gigantic devil holding up the font by the entrance door? And the place certainly has a buzz about it. The few shops that are there are making the most of the whole ‘Dan Brown Thing’ and you can’t blame them. It’s a bit like a mini Glastonbury with esoteric bookshops, angel and unicorn merchants, and one can even buy branded wine.
Astrological Sun Dial over a doorway 



Hugo loving Campan
Our drive through the Pyrenees over these last few days has been absolutely gorgeous. Imagine our amusement when we were in a tiny mountain village called Campan and we came across an English tea shop doing fish and chips (and not in a Costa Del Sol way) – not quite the French cheese we had been craving but of course we had to indulge. We parked by a river packed with fish and Hugo enjoyed whizzing around the green fields with no fear of being run over (he has no road sense whatsoever). 

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