What a shame you didn’t get to sit and eat your ice-cream with that lovely view. I love the photo of your luncheon cafe. Australia has got right into outdoor eating over the past few years, but mostly it just feels like eating on the footpath beside a busy smelly road.
Rosemary Kneipp
August 31st, 2015 at 10:23 pm
It always amazes me to see people sitting on a sidewalk café right next to traffic. I can’t see the point either. They have a lot of them in Paris.
You might want to change ‘Vineyards along the cycle path…’ to ‘Apple orchards along the cycle path…’ in the photo caption 🙂
That bishop’s bathroom is intriguing. What date are we talking about? If it’s medieval it must be unique or close. I’ve never heard of anything like that before. Bathrooms didn’t really start appearing until the second half of the 19th century. Bathhouses on the other hand would have been common in the medieval, but they didn’t survive the Reformation.
I wonder where Meung castle fits in the list of oldest chateaux? It’s certainly not number 1 or 2.
I’m impressed by the cyclists’ traffic light too. Let’s hope cyclists do the right thing and respect it.
Having just done a quick twirl of the internet I assume the bishop’s bathroom is first half of the 18th C, which still makes it an extremely unusual room. Most people in the period were convinced that bathing was a thoroughly perilous activity and they would literally catch their death. The church had encouraged this view in order to close down the bathhouses post-Reformation. I can’t recall another such early private bathroom. Even in the early 19th C when bathing became more widely practiced it was still initially done with a temporary set up in the bedroom.
The oldest surviving bits of the chateau are 12thC, which doesn’t even put it in the top 10 oldest, btw.
Rosemary Kneipp
August 31st, 2015 at 10:30 pm
I can’t find the brochure we were given but although it’s obviously not mediaeval, I know it was quite early. First half of the 18th century rings a bell. I’ll let you know if the brochure turns up 🙂
Rosemary Kneipp
August 31st, 2015 at 10:26 pm
Oh dear, how embarrassing to mistake apples for vineyards. I thought apples were higher! That’s the trouble only having half vision 🙂
The churches in particular are beauties, and one doesn’t see jousting here!
This is the first time I’ve seen live jousting too!
What a shame you didn’t get to sit and eat your ice-cream with that lovely view. I love the photo of your luncheon cafe. Australia has got right into outdoor eating over the past few years, but mostly it just feels like eating on the footpath beside a busy smelly road.
It always amazes me to see people sitting on a sidewalk café right next to traffic. I can’t see the point either. They have a lot of them in Paris.
You might want to change ‘Vineyards along the cycle path…’ to ‘Apple orchards along the cycle path…’ in the photo caption 🙂
That bishop’s bathroom is intriguing. What date are we talking about? If it’s medieval it must be unique or close. I’ve never heard of anything like that before. Bathrooms didn’t really start appearing until the second half of the 19th century. Bathhouses on the other hand would have been common in the medieval, but they didn’t survive the Reformation.
I wonder where Meung castle fits in the list of oldest chateaux? It’s certainly not number 1 or 2.
I’m impressed by the cyclists’ traffic light too. Let’s hope cyclists do the right thing and respect it.
Having just done a quick twirl of the internet I assume the bishop’s bathroom is first half of the 18th C, which still makes it an extremely unusual room. Most people in the period were convinced that bathing was a thoroughly perilous activity and they would literally catch their death. The church had encouraged this view in order to close down the bathhouses post-Reformation. I can’t recall another such early private bathroom. Even in the early 19th C when bathing became more widely practiced it was still initially done with a temporary set up in the bedroom.
The oldest surviving bits of the chateau are 12thC, which doesn’t even put it in the top 10 oldest, btw.
I can’t find the brochure we were given but although it’s obviously not mediaeval, I know it was quite early. First half of the 18th century rings a bell. I’ll let you know if the brochure turns up 🙂
Oh dear, how embarrassing to mistake apples for vineyards. I thought apples were higher! That’s the trouble only having half vision 🙂