Holding fast onto culture and history, food, buildings, architecture, town scape and country landscape, looks like a very strict building code prevails. History the 850th anniversary of Sens cathedrale. Big history intertwined with the Catholic Church.
Food
At the first B and B, Each morning hosts go to the boulangerie BEFORE work to buy fresh bread for our breakfast, thanks, yum, but a really big effort. A similar story in small villages up until lunchtime then the baker closes or sells out. The bread is so outstanding, we had to buy croissants. The baker would open again in the afternoon. Many streets were deserted around midday, 1.00pm. People lunching shops closed - another tradition. Goodies like pate, rillettes, terrines are available at every turn.. Fruit and veg are abundant and tasty and beautiful to behold.
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Yes! That fois gras is 189.00 per kg |
We, in Australia, celebrate "the new", the next big idea, innovation, ingenuity and problemsolving and progress and growth, energy. We are not so big on tradition, in fact we are quick to mock our own. However France holds on, so that means not too many skyscrapers, not too many Macker's. They say no to growth no matter what the cost. And sometimes they even say no to America. We don't. USA labels them cowardly, but I don't think they care.
The landscape
One of our fellow travelers talked about the exquisite poignancy , beauty and tragedy of graves of her relatives in France.
A dramatic purple sky. The sea of swaying golden barley crops, white crosses, the loss of the young men, so long ago, but so well remembered, even today. So different from the stuffy monuments. The countryside itself, preserved and beautiful as it is, brings poignancy.
View from Vejelais |
San Germain early morning |
A little later |
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