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November 12th 2008

Published: November 13th 2008

13 hour meals, aperitifs with a monk, helping the baker get bread hot from the oven at 6am, scrambling around in the ruins of a 13th century chateau, a private tour of a 12th century monastery, the following are my experiences of the “France Profonde”. As November 11th is a national Holiday in France, and I don’t have classes on Mondays or Wednesdays, Guillaume invited me to spend a long we... Read Full Entry

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The Monastery

Glowing in the morning light, at this point the monks have already been up for 3 hours.

IdÃ©al!

Les champs

Le Loire

There is an island to the left (not pictured) where many famous french poets and philosophers used to sit and muse on life and beauty.

Oh, you know it!

This used to be inside..

We had to cross their field to get to the ruins, probably not legal, but they didn't seem to mind.

The road home

17th November 2008

Lynn Haskell
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Living vicariously
Googled you on kartoo.com and got to your link, that was fun. Love reading about your adventures. Talked to Nancy Ferguson today and she and I agree that we love living vicariously through you. Continue writing and living the dream.

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