Salut! Here in Retournac I may use the Internet in the Office de Tourisme. Cool! I had not more expecting to be able to write before my destination Le Puy again.
It is summer. And although a really nice. I think I have the summer never seen as intense as this week, where I went from Saint-Haon here. And two whole great things happened. I have two new friends with whom I walk together, and I have a teaching position for next year at a very prestigious music school. It is all coming together and I'm indescribably happy.
Sylvie and Thérèse I got to know in the Gite Saint-Haon when I returned from my evening walk. They are two French students from Lyon to go to Le Puy. Sylvie me quite the same cheerful and rather welcomed questioned. Well, yes as I normally do with other pilgrims * grin *. We are quite similar and were held as often this week for nurses. As you meet any other girl for weeks and then suddenly in front of you is your French counterpart
Thérèse was initially cautious. There was something about her, which I would describe as graciously. As if it grants a favor to send to them a few words. At first I thought she is a little cranky because Sylvia and I losquasselten same. But in the week that we go now, I have noticed that this really is an expression of their nobility. It is a noble and even has an ancestor Ururgrosstante or that was during the French Revolution, a lady at Compagnie de Marie Antoinette was beheaded and the Queen is. Something required of course. Thérèse is among the noble families, which rose with pride and motionless on the scaffold, and even superior to the mob as were total. At first, I thought, well, that Thérèse is pretty arrogant. But it is a centuries old family tradition that is passed into her flesh and blood. This week I got to appreciate immensely. I do not know anyone who has as much class as them. She has style, you can rely on it absolutely, they never complained about the way and it is fully formed. And the amazing, even after a long Pilgertag she still looks tres chic.
For example yesterday when we, the 30 kilometers above the highest mountain in the whole range from Marol to the Castle of Valprivas ran. Sylvie and I were slightly deranged but when we arrived, but Thérèse walked like a queen up the castle stairs and greeted with an indescribable dignity of the head of the cultural center where we were going to sleep. As if they just got out of their Rolls Royce would be. She has suffered along the way as well as Sylvie and me. But she has an incredible mastery. If a castle's turn, then you act accordingly and, no matter how just is it. But it takes is for you this way: If a lake is, it splashes around in it just as silly as Sylvie and me. Only she does not sleep in the open. She never makes. When we got in Mont Verdun in the Gite Au Pic no place is Sylvie and I went to sleep in the convent garden. Thérèse has preferred to hire at the campsite caravan.
The ice was broken between us, when we discovered our shared passion for the theater. Thérèse has founded a university in their Studentenbuehne and acted as Sophonisbe of Corneille. Of course, the title role. The play is about the Carthaginian princess Sophonisbe to be handed over as a slave to the lost war the Roman general Scipio. To avoid this, it takes the poisoned cup. A typical role for Thérèse. They would in real life, make sure the same way. And with the same dignity with which she strides over the volcanic mountains of the Auvergne and has risen with its ancestor on the scaffold. I should so like to see as Sophonisbe.
And what I can tell by the way? Until there was a wide Montbrison Umbro and Saint-Jean-le-Puy, we have come back to the Loire, which meanders because of a steep bank. As we went swimming, of course. And after that very often. On the most beautiful, the lake was of Vidrieux, shortly before it went into the mountains. My bikini is these days come again fully operational.
On Thursday there were on the way from Pommiers to Mont Verdun what to celebrate. For I have previously calculated that I just at the campsite just before La Barge Montverdun my 1000-km reach point. Therefore I bought the night before in a bottle of sparkling wine and Pommiers concerned three plastic cups. Have you nothing betrayed. When we arrived in La Barge, I said, we make it a break, and then I pulled the champagne from the backpack. Source surprise "grin *! Sylvie has announced immediately, to found a citizens initiative to erect a monument in La Barge.
So were the celebrations but not over. In Champdieu, where we visited a sub monastery of Cluny, but you can even spitzenmaessige disco. It is the best be the whole area. It is called "Au temps perdu" and is located in the old Bahnhofsgebaeude of Champdieu. been real nice. We are Champdieu gone through yet to the pilgrims in Montbrison, because we have dressed up like blazes our clothes, and are cut back by train. Man falls from the platform even less in the disco. Well, not directly, because in between there are the bouncers. I have been worried if we at all with our walking shoes come past them. But if you as "Dame de Compagnie" Thérèse of the road, are you coming in everywhere. No, nonsense, in fact it is so that the French clubs do not have such strict dress code. The French experiment much. And Trekking Boots go absolutely. The singer Ann'so M., for example, to make their appearances sometimes hiking boots. The combined them with red laces and denim shorts. She wears a black Top Looks really cool, though I have a top in the color of Schuhbaender better to perform them. But black is now once their trademark.
Thérèse and Sylvie are already a few times been in Champdieu because the "au temps perdu" is a trendy location in the studies from Lyon. It was Friday evening, the weekend started and it was quite nice on the dance floor full. But that is normal Sun The French kiddies dancing namely much more than we Germans limp. Na logo, if you can bring your own boat. And there were also really good and varied music. From rock to soul to techno and house everything was there. We are as up to five stayed there and then at dawn zurückgetapert the three kilometers to Montbrison. Then we snuck into the monastery and placed first on the ear, until all were wondering where we stay for.
Yes, and I must tell of the mountains. Behind Montbrison returns a mountain range and Mount Archer, the highest point is higher than 1165 meters of the Mont-Saint-Rigaud. It is the highest point at all between Darmstadt and Le Puy. At the top there is also a hostel for pilgrims and I wanted to go there. It is actually not that far, 25 miles from Montbrison. For this, we will but pretty up and at 32 degrees to one just as hot disco night. Slept, we had not so much. And all day the bass were still in the ear. Sylvie said I was "une folle". And Thérèse said that under no circumstances would they even go as high. Well, and then when we were in Marol and the mountain looked up, I have also seen the Sun Instead we had but yesterday that thirty-mile walk to Valprivas. It was really another stage Koenig. Thirty kilometers only uphill and downhill at about 30 degrees. Luckily we had at half past nine the hardest part behind us were comfortable in Mont Archer and drink coffee. Because from up there the view is great about the Auvergne. Sylvie has almost all the mountains named. She and her family often made in the Auvergne holiday and is connected to each volcano by you. I've become accustomed to the "land of a thousand volcanoes" in "Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver" reminds felt. It looked destined Sun I told Sylvie and Therese of the little half dragon Nepomuk, the volcano is always assumed. Did they find funny.
It was almost evening when we reached the castle of Valprivas. Today the castle is a cultural center that the music research and Auffuehrungspraxis has prescribed. Thérèse has told the manager that I am an excellent violinist, who deals with the musical traditions of the route to Santiago. And I had therefore despite the thirty kilometers unpack my violin and play for the manager. So of course, not immediately but only after dinner when we got back were somewhat recovered. I demonstrated what I learned from Dick Le Mair and Oliver Schroer, and then a few of his own improvisations. In addition I've always told, to the places and in what situations is which piece occurred to me. That is an hour-long program has become. Yes, and I was immediately hired as a lecturer for the next year. I will participate in a summer course on Music and St. James. can be transferred with a focus on how emotions and moods of places in music. I'm really looking forward to it. Today I have the whole day can remember and the way down to Retournac times all perceived in that light. I have quite a lot of ideas come. But actually you need just in this stretch, just look. There are namely as many breathtaking views of the Loire, to which we are descended.
Bisou
vôtre Julie
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