Swimming and sun! Great parts of our trip! We don't see a lot of sun in Belgium so we really soaked up what we could in the south of France. A pool was a really nice added value where we stayed. We divided our days between relaxing by the pool and going here and there at a slow pace. The absolute best thing was not touching a computer for two whole weeks!!!! It was really fantastic and much easier to kick than I thought it would be - having not been without a computer for the last several years! But I loved it! It truly added to the relaxation factor - just not being connected to the world other than for the occasional text message. Unfortunately and not surprisingly - the minute I was back home I was of course back on the computer - and here I am again on this blog....
The above photo was taken on a bad-weather day. We went to a cave to see hand-prints from 24,000 years ago! It was pretty cool. All these strange guesses as to why there were so many hand prints all over the cave and caves in the area and why the hands all looked like half of the fingers or all of them were cut in alf - maybe mutilated? Maybe a secret language? Nobody knows and nobody will ever know. But it's so fun to guess and imagine and to see something from so very long ago from our cavemen relatives! I totally enjoy that sort of thing. And it was even better because it was just the three of us with a guide - a private tour because it wasn't busy. And tjhe nature around was beautiful too.
Later that day we went to a very, very old church that's foundations and details were from the Roman times and sometimes dated back to the year 1000!!!! It's just insane to see things that old still standing! To imagine how people built all this stuff way back then! That's where churches amaze me. How did the create these amazing structures so very long ago? It's just so easy to imagine people falling off scaffolds while painting high cealings and lugging huge and heavy boulders and slabs of all sorts of concrete-like stuff so high up - but so hard to imagine how that all took place. It just reminds you that 1000 years ago and before, there were people just like all of us with architecture (mostly for God) in mind. Hard workers. Dedicated to these massive projects that sometimes went on for not only decades but centuries. It's incredible to be in a place where for more than 1000 years people have come to pray. Many pilgrims on their way to Portugal pass through this church and have for 1000 years!!!!!! It's all a bit mind-blowing!
My daughter took the photo above. A common site all over France. The slab in the photo below dates back to Roman times! Crazy!!!
Swimming and sun! Great parts of our trip! We don't see a lot of sun in Belgium so we really soaked up what we could in the south of France. A pool was a really nice added value where we stayed. We divided our days between relaxing by the pool and going here and there at a slow pace. The absolute best thing was not touching a computer for two whole weeks!!!! It was really fantastic and much easier to kick than I thought it would be - having not been without a computer for the last several years! But I loved it! It truly added to the relaxation factor - just not being connected to the world other than for the occasional text message. Unfortunately and not surprisingly - the minute I was back home I was of course back on the computer - and here I am again on this blog....
The above photo was taken on a bad-weather day. We went to a cave to see hand-prints from 24,000 years ago! It was pretty cool. All these strange guesses as to why there were so many hand prints all over the cave and caves in the area and why the hands all looked like half of the fingers or all of them were cut in alf - maybe mutilated? Maybe a secret language? Nobody knows and nobody will ever know. But it's so fun to guess and imagine and to see something from so very long ago from our cavemen relatives! I totally enjoy that sort of thing. And it was even better because it was just the three of us with a guide - a private tour because it wasn't busy. And tjhe nature around was beautiful too.
Later that day we went to a very, very old church that's foundations and details were from the Roman times and sometimes dated back to the year 1000!!!! It's just insane to see things that old still standing! To imagine how people built all this stuff way back then! That's where churches amaze me. How did the create these amazing structures so very long ago? It's just so easy to imagine people falling off scaffolds while painting high cealings and lugging huge and heavy boulders and slabs of all sorts of concrete-like stuff so high up - but so hard to imagine how that all took place. It just reminds you that 1000 years ago and before, there were people just like all of us with architecture (mostly for God) in mind. Hard workers. Dedicated to these massive projects that sometimes went on for not only decades but centuries. It's incredible to be in a place where for more than 1000 years people have come to pray. Many pilgrims on their way to Portugal pass through this church and have for 1000 years!!!!!! It's all a bit mind-blowing!
My daughter took the photo above. A common site all over France. The slab in the photo below dates back to Roman times! Crazy!!!
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