Monday, 6 December 2010

Returning to France


I thought I should correct a misleading impression.  The weather in France this summer was mixed but we had more good days than bad.  The photo above was taken at the end of a wonderful - quite long -  walk in the warm sunshine for example.  The one below is in the garden behind the Toulose Lautrec Museum in  Albi.  If you haven't been, I can strongly recommend a visit.  Lautrec's art is more extensive and varied than I had imagined and all of it immediately appealing.  The town itself is equally pleasant, although I reserve judgement  on the red brick cathedral.  It is impressive certainly, vast and domineering, which was clearly the intention.  But it looks more like a nineteenth century power station than a church and the interior is even less interesting.  We did have an excellent lunch however which, despite gainsayers in the press and amongst our friends, was a regular occurrence for us.  Vive la France!  We enjoyed it so much we are going back in 2011 and the ferry is already booked.

 
 
Below is the medieval 'power station' in Albi - which isn't a bad name, if you allow a rather poor play on words, because what was it meant to be other than a 'power station' for the medieval church?

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