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- 29 sie 2021, 18:12
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Wysokość: 247 m
- FrancjaBourgogne-Franche-ComtéVézelay47°27’51” N 3°44’30” E
Peaceful Sunday in Vézelay
29 sierpnia 2021, Francja ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Another perfect day. Lovely breakfast at the hotel - buffet of all the good things - cheeses, prosciutto, boiled eggs, cereals, croissants, juice, coffee…this is a reasonably modest hotel, but this is probably a better breakfast than we may have at many places on our pilgrimage!
After that good start, we went to the Picasso museum where there aren’t many actual works of his, but really a collection of Christian Zervos’ memories of him - he was a friend and admirer of Picasso and there are many letters etc …interesting. The museum is in one of the stone buildings with walls a metre thick . In fact Vézelay is just a line of these stone buildings, centuries old, occasionally there is a gap between buildings, but mostly joined. And the one main street leading up to the Basilica. I said how beautifully it has been cleaned, and will include a photo showing some side areas where it has not yet been treated and you can imagine how the whole building looked 20 years ago!
Amr and I walked round the perimeter of the walls at least 3 times today…such a beautiful walk view in all directions. Being still the weekend there were many visitors. This reminds me a little of Conques during the last French camino, which is also a picturesque town on a hill with a magnificent basilica - and also a favourite venue for weddings! A lovely place to have a weekend getaway. One success during the morning was that Amr was able to buy a walking stick! His old one had broken and he planned to buy a new one, but rejected the opportunity in Paris saying he would get it in Vézelay…I did warn him that I didn’t think they would have pilgrim shops, and there aren’t (like St Jean Pied de Port, or even Le Puy)…but coming out of the museum this morning I spotted some in a nicknack shop just by pure luck, so he doesn’t have to start walking stick-less. It is even a collapsible one that he can pack in his bag!!
Another funny thing to report is that in the square (not actually square) in one section there were 11 Maseratis all parked together. Quite weird…could there have been a Maserati conference?? Anyway, they have all gone now.
After all this gentle activity we went at about 5 pm to a Cave de vins de Bourgogne and had a beautiful glass of local Pinot noir. While there we perused the instructions for walking tomorrow with slight trepidation! They sound so detailed and complicated and we hope there are markers that make these instructions superfluous…but it is all part of the adventure, and we just know that we have to be at Asnois at 3pm to have a taxi ride to our hotel which is in another town! The man at the wine Cave said that both Asnois and Clamecy (where we spend the night) are both lovely towns, as is everything round here, so we can’t go wrong really. All will be excellent! Dinner tonight at the restaurant at the inn where we stayed in 1999…Amr plans to have the tête de veau!! Details later. Czytaj więcej
Podróżnik Really enjoying tripping with you. I have resurrected my Eyewitness France book and joining you for breakfast. No mention of Asnois but found Clamecy. Dinner looked wonderful, pleased to see you’re not holding back on the wine.
Podróżnik Do you think Dad was in town with the cars 🚗😆?
Podróżnik Hopefully the vin de Bourgogne matched the stunning countryside!🍷