12 August 2015

1st of August, Chateaumeillant

Saint-Genès Church in Chateaumeillant.

The capitals inside were fab too, but I couldn't get any good photos of them. Click HERE to see more photos.
Here are a couple of photos from the museum of work. The youngest was more interested in this museum.

31st of July, Museum of Emile Chenon in Chateaumeillant

While excavating for a building project in the mid 50's they found over 600 of these jars- Amphora is the name of the shape and they were used to store wine. They are from Roman times, the jars were from Italy, Greece and Spain. Chateaumeillant was a once a Roman town.
They recently found this and other amazing treasures below (2011), in a well. In this point in history, when the Gauls attacked Roman towns, they burned everything to the ground, so the ememy had no food or resources. A well was a good place to keep these treasures.

30th of July, The Lake at Sidiailles.

We had an excellent picnic lunch.
Mr Cool and his new sunnies.
Someone is pretending to be angry.
Boys had fun on the pedal boats.
And fun swimming too!

Sunflowers

There were fields of beautiful sunflowers everywhere. Very inspiring.

28th of July, Vic.

The little church of Saint-Martin de Vic in Nohant-Vic contains some well-preserved Romanesque frescoes from the 12th century. The frescoes depict scenes from the lives of Christ and St Martin.

28th of July, George Sand's House

This was her house. We decided, just to explore the garden.
All of the blue sculptures were created by Jean-Paul Moscovino. Click on his name for more information).
Click here to read more about George Sand (Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin). And Here for information about her house.