http://www.ellenwilkin.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2018-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1465515710942-FQWWTLBDZM9EHI2PA2W7/04_eleanorVaseLouvre.jpg Photo Gallery - The Eleanor Vase I took this photo at the Louvre Museum in Paris, May 2011, while I was on the hunt for Eleanor of Aquitaine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1465515710942-FQWWTLBDZM9EHI2PA2W7/04_eleanorVaseLouvre.jpg Photo Gallery - The Eleanor Vase I took this photo at the Louvre Museum in Paris, May 2011, while I was on the hunt for Eleanor of Aquitaine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1465515666927-QJ48NZ6QHEZ04458EGBQ/5F3V5633.JPG Photo Gallery - There are times when I just sit and think Gold Lake, Ward, Colorado, 2012. A beautiful place to contemplate and meditate. Picture by David R. Wiley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1460069178545-QQETMZMNYUYV8CFMMK6L/04_eleanorVaseLouvre.jpg Photo Gallery - The Eleanor Vase I took this photo at the Louvre Museum in Paris, May 2011, while I was on the hunt for Eleanor of Aquitaine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1465515924586-66LR8NYZTV51QDO8PWP7/dyersCottageGuedelon.jpg Photo Gallery - Dyer's Cottage I took this photo of a replica of a dyer's Cottage, Guedelon, near Saint Fargeau, Burgundy, France, June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1465515756404-GC8ULM5YAUTSIJ0RHJBX/Ellen_byRetroPerspectiveStudio-39.jpg Photo Gallery - Dressing up and recreating Rockwell My friend Auliya McCauley-Hartner and I recreated the famous The Young Lady with the Shiner by Norman Rockwell. Because.. why not? Photo by Retro Perspective Studio, May 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1465515858603-2PA3ISHF16TRUFZ31X89/ellenBinocsWaldonPonds.JPG Photo Gallery - Birdwatching Out with my husband at Waldon Ponds, Boulder CO, watching the waterfowl, February 2016. Picture by David R. Wiley. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog daily 1.0 2025-01-19 http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2025/1/19/x8o3e0pl7afwbzoticf8roqe6i2gjd monthly 0.5 2025-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/fa3ca52d-b7b6-49f1-8991-d2b3e15b1f50/Book+Signing+Highres.jpg Home - Public Reading and Signing of my poetry book, Snow Signals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2024/11/25/id-like-a-cosmopolitan monthly 0.5 2025-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/947c4207-aa3e-4b10-b922-76d16c1472cc/cosmopolitan-150530_640.jpg Home - I'd Like a Cosmopolitan http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2023/3/1/winter-spring-essay-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/6257011c-0350-4d67-a5b8-42045ab05845/housfrnt.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out The front of our brand-spanking new house, Fall 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/cac4ae8e-6367-433c-b87a-64e49e1ef8a2/wkdave3.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out Dave in his workshop soon after we moved into our house, March 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/09eae64b-1d9e-4eef-b831-0dd81c33df36/PXL_20220912_142443964.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out A bathtub full of books before flooring installation, September 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/aadb2172-91b4-4fb3-9cf3-998f7007a0c2/PXL_20220915_143213055.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out My office after new carpeting was installed, September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/9bb6df59-3885-4cf6-93be-c5a4a2cda783/PXL_20220915_143101635.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out New carpeting shines on our staircase while Dave works at his computer in the dining room during installation, September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/99674171-982b-4628-9bdb-e33f8bdc79c2/PXL_20220915_143143676.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out The guest bath floor finished and tub still full o’books halfway through flooring installation, September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/ce88663d-0a89-4dda-9964-3932c47ef101/PXL_20220915_143232483.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out The treacherous hallway after the flooring installation was complete, September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/7aaf8f54-1049-41f3-82b9-d2b361852130/PXL_20220908_011458811.PORTRAIT.jpg Home - Winter-Spring Essay 2023: Couple Improves House - Make it stand out Dave and me, enjoying life, September 2022. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2022/2/9/cloud-diary monthly 0.5 2022-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/8b827d23-8faf-482d-b9e6-0f37f2b5b93c/PXL_20220205_193922363.jpg Home - Cloud Diary - Make it stand out Cumulus clouds appearing to be chased by Cirrus clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/5538df2e-ad48-4c20-91bb-ac361d7b2ca2/PXL_20220205_194335061.jpg Home - Cloud Diary - Make it stand out Cumulus clouds hang over the Front Range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/18c5fa39-1cab-4cc4-8248-200617f1f39a/PXL_20211231_235250568.NIGHT.jpg Home - Cloud Diary - Make it stand out Our front yard on New Year’s Eve as the storm finally hit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/82d6dcd0-1c4f-4661-b743-d24f1738d12e/IMG_20140107_163958.jpg Home - Cloud Diary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2021/11/29/clouds monthly 0.5 2021-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/80c9c004-acab-4db5-bec2-47f2f6d8553a/IMG_20140430_105731.jpg Home - Clouds - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2021/7/2/dave-as-a-beer monthly 0.5 2021-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1625252019253-MIVKQNW8E5LS220D2AFO/outsideSTraightDaveasBeer.jpg Home - Dave as a Beer - Make it stand out A view of the back of the card/wall-hanging that goes with the poem. Start at the center and let your eye move left, then tilt your head, to get the left side of the collage. Let your eye move right, then tilt your head, to get the right side of the collage. Yeah. It’s weird. I was in an artistic funk when I glued it up. :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1625252632155-VREABA3JYSDO3XYPS84I/InteriorDaveasBeerCONTRAST.jpg Home - Dave as a Beer - Make it stand out The inside of the card/wall-hanging that goes with this poem. I used my sturdy 20-year-old LaserJet printer and my new colored pencils, with a bit of collage, to create the effect. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2021/1/23/happy-winter monthly 0.5 2021-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1611432526758-6JIZ93OINN0POVL0XUXG/PXL_20210123_190827491.PORTRAIT.jpg Home - Happy Winter! http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2020/2/22/winter-poem monthly 0.5 2020-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1582415233689-8ZNWL2GH5IMGEY9JAH5A/optics-prism-light-beam-light-guide-preview.jpg Home - Winter Poem optics, prism, light beam, light guide, attempt, physics from PicPic.com http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2020/2/22/winter-letter-20192020 monthly 0.5 2020-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1582413003879-CH0VR50GNWK4TB1WZUA3/IMG_20200222_130255.jpg Home - Winter Letter 2019/2020 Dave Wiley’s Glowforge-made card design for this year’s Winter letter. With my text, of course! http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2020/2/11/the-bells monthly 0.5 2020-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1581446160646-ZMZX7LVPFACUUNU1ODIC/CampanileMtTamalpiasSunset-original.jpg Home - The Bells The Campanile (Sather Tower) and Mt. Tamalpais from Memorial Stadium at sunset, 2006, Berkeley, CA by Tristan Harward. Creative Commons license http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/11/28/if-you-cant-find-a-friend monthly 0.5 2019-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1574980914016-T14TV9W6CYR34QPHY9CD/hqdefault.jpg Home - If You Can’t Find a Friend http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/10/5/weird monthly 0.5 2019-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1570295155158-DQU0ZW0CXK0HX8HOETBI/IMG_20190921_144356.jpg Home - Weird The Gloucester Writers Center cottage in Gloucester, MA. The alien craft sits on the far right of the photo. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/10/2/reading monthly 0.5 2019-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1570209598695-69S9GCF4OM69YAO3XR4B/index.jpg Home - I Was Writer in Residence at the Gloucester Writer's Center http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/9/10/calling-inspiration monthly 0.5 2019-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1568172910739-P5HBQ6RATTR9Y3F89WWM/image-asset.jpeg Home - Calling Inspiration A nice red Jump dress (Titanic inspiration) back view Photo by ~ggvic~ [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/6/6/even-after-my-death monthly 0.5 2019-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1559878111114-6IBT1FFUEJ85ZW5CATT0/01_stageRomanTheaterZaragoza+%282016_06_12+14_47_12+UTC%29.jpg Home - Even After My Death The Ruins of the Stage of a Roman Theater, Zaragoza, Spain June 28, 2011 http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/2/22/blue-what-are-you monthly 0.5 2019-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1550862496647-RDHS6E4B5U0JMH2J3HWI/xblue.jpg Home - Blue, What Are You? Cover of Joni Mitchell's album Blue, 1971. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/2/17/great-horned-owl monthly 0.5 2019-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1550461411956-36S71C72OMPA1QRK9FJ2/IMG_20190215_091720-001.jpg Home - Great Horned Owl Sketch of a Great Horned Owl from Sibley’s Guide to North American Birds by Ellen A. Wilkin. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/2/2/winter-letter-20182019 monthly 0.5 2019-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1549155815621-93BHUT7MTC62C6MYUNXG/IMG_1367.JPG Home - Winter Letter 2018/2019 A Suminagashi print by Ellen A. Wilkin copyright 2018 http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/2/2/finding-a-connection monthly 0.5 2019-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1549156998331-NNSH999EWYR711INJHI5/44471214_10156129302402636_1044426795304091648_o.jpg Home - Finding a Connection David Wiley's beautiful woodwork really frames Mike Brouse's painting perfectly in our master bedroom. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2019/1/15/reaching-for-the-horizon monthly 0.5 2019-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1547593164926-61X73SIPOFXVPQKKUBVH/Detention-Affection-Contact-Keep-Hands-3065653.jpg Home - Reaching for the Horizon Photo by Max Pixel through CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Licensing http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/12/31/timpano-feast-ring-in-the-new-year-with-a-big-night monthly 0.5 2019-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294566180-6TOQ8BZO9588YCGUETU9/IMG_1354.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294566042-71WOTNT5LLY6Z2421VO1/IMG_1355.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294567608-1A55F1GOEHCL560T8HGX/IMG_1356.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294567411-T393QOY4EJO6TO2CYXC2/IMG_1358.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294568984-FND93THM6E4X60GO24S7/IMG_1362.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294570091-Y0IW83XIG2SWG9XKJJA8/IMG_1363.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294570390-WK1P5NQ9CT2QCUKJD2R8/IMG_1364.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1546294570912-JENZ5QTQVQ31J6OUP5LZ/IMG_1365.JPG Home - Timpano Feast: Ring in the New Year with a Big Night http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/12/27/christmas-mouse monthly 0.5 2019-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1545954148386-KNCVABL5TGB8SXSNUDBE/IMG_1352.JPG Home - Christmas Mouse http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/11/20/bottomful-pancakes monthly 0.5 2018-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1542742669584-7D8QFSTPI4HRKPXZ6898/IMG_20140208_110605.jpg Home - Bottomful Pancakes An unusual pancake at breakfast. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/10/23/rembrandts-prints-at-the-dam monthly 0.5 2018-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1540319255380-HBMADOON6DWZTUP2K3XZ/Rembrandt_EyesWideOpen_PTL-15356.jpg Home - Rembrandt's Prints at the DAM Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait in a Cap, Wide-Eyed and Open-Mouthed, about 1630. Etching and drypoint, state 2; 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. Bibliotheque nationale de France, Department of Prints and photography (by way of the Denver Art Museum, Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/8/10/a-little-package-from-across-the-pond monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1533920592515-53LGCZHCU3C9IF0Q4YBY/henryHead2.jpg Home - A Little Package From Across the Pond The head's side of my 860-year-old silver Short Cross penny. You can just make out the shape of Henry II's head and his hand holding the scepter on the left. The lettering reads "HENRICUS REX." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1533921878148-TUQI2AKJJ8T4PGMAAHSM/henryTail2.jpg Home - A Little Package From Across the Pond The tail's side of my Short Cross penny showing the actual "short cross." The lettering is off, but it says it was minted by a man named Hugo in Lincoln, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1533922698334-PG6H0TK3E9XVK4WA1KD5/IMG_20180801_175452.jpg Home - A Little Package From Across the Pond The note stuck inside the package with the coin. It identifies its provenance. Lovejoy would be proud! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1533924034380-S6K5CW709EW4C40B1GXU/henry-ii-of-england-henry-ii-1154-1189-ar-penny-19mm-1-35-g-6h-short-cross-type-class-ia1-northampton-mint-willelm-moneyer-struck-1180.jpg Home - A Little Package From Across the Pond Silver Short Cross Coins stamped during the same era as my coin. These coins represent Class 1, the same as my penny. Note that the were minted in a different place and by a different moneyer: Willhem struck them in Northampton England. 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Copyright Civitas Galleries. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/7/11/the-field-car monthly 0.5 2018-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1531328259257-L7QBIGL0B9SG74NAV7G3/31956047_10155761746667636_4993534861881901056_o.jpg Home - The Field Car http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/4/20/pillars monthly 0.5 2018-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1524249809298-Q42R7N8OKRAAVC1FL0TU/62_templeDAugustCatalanHikersAssocGothicBarcelona+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29.jpg Home - Pillars http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/4/11/artspeak-collaboration-julie-clements-and-ellen-wilkin monthly 0.5 2018-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1523488772437-KL90AE84XCZ6LVVC0O59/IMG_9651.jpg Home - ArtSpeak Collaboration: Julie Clement & Ellen Wilkin Bark of the Cottonwood by Julie Clement 2018. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/3/20/the-dancing-giant monthly 0.5 2018-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1521587395717-9A3EG6V1DMHHUZ9DYVB1/pc7rRozRi.jpg Home - The Dancing Giant http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/2/22/bird-catalog monthly 0.5 2018-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1519327442778-XT2I616XRG5ILPE80W4W/IMG_20180222_110044.jpg Home - Bird Catalog http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/2/13/the-workings-of-the-heart monthly 0.5 2018-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1518582943971-KDIKCUMGVERV64Q331HN/IMG_0507+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29.JPG Home - The Workings of the Heart http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/1/26/before-the-ice-melts monthly 0.5 2018-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006520161-0Q7UNDF8R4ESCL3COF8X/IMG_2167-001.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts - Grate at the Airport Road Underpass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006541759-ARDF4GWSG7NF1Z9YJE84/IMG_2238.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006518740-KBK4GQUKAERXNZRJ8I6R/IMG_2206.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006544057-ZPEY0TVLW52W1I3EUNN4/IMG_2311.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006520094-E890BNQC0MX8XIEBAMBP/IMG_2245.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006542650-7OQJYIDW1RRKAOS06D3N/IMG_2327.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006520976-Y7V8F4U01I9U1JK11FNN/IMG_2383.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006521362-OZ7Q3MGBW7Y4SAK4O5EW/IMG_2422.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006544696-HOM8FY7NCZAXYK0Y1OG0/IMG_2372.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006522937-7YVNIMWXXFG2Z0YIB3UZ/IMG_2428.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006522113-OE3F93RQYVLQA8XNJZYB/IMG_2461.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1517006523134-EHQLHI2QURF0LC601PEL/IMG_2469.JPG Home - Before the Ice Melts http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/1/19/winter-letter-2017-2018 monthly 0.5 2018-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1516403037616-ZYLCLFQH6NQBRPZJYO8W/IMG_20180119_155451.jpg Home - Winter Letter 2017-2018 A Suminagashi print I did this year over the winter holidays. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/12/31/my-own-take-on-the-artist-prayer-from-the-artist-way-by-j-cameron monthly 0.5 2017-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1514753303549-8IZWTGYUH6IBTQFWYN8F/IMG_20171231_130412.jpg Home - My Own Take on the Artist Prayer from The Artist Way by J. 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The tapestry was commissioned by Duke Louis I of Anjou in the 14th c. based on Revelations. Some violent gory stuff in here... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1510885552592-90N3YVD00P3EXUR01VM7/IMG_0792+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29CROPPED.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: The Chateau d'Angers and the Apocalypse Tapestry The entrance to the museum gift shop and to the remains of the Roman baths seen from the formal gardens that grace the courtyard in front of the 12th century castle wall. The southeast end of the Apocalypse Tapestry hall is at the top right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1509638500473-YHWU39LKIOO8KODPU6NN/IMG_0806+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29-001.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: The Chateau d'Angers and the Apocalypse Tapestry Looking through the gardens atop the earthworks toward the opposite castle wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1509643299190-C5LKEZDZ1TD69KL9FARK/IMG_0791+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: The Chateau d'Angers and the Apocalypse Tapestry The manicured gardens in front of the original 12th-century wall of the Chateau d'Angers. These gardens are enclosed on the opposite corner by the new Apocalypse Tapestry wing. You can just see one wall of that wing coming in to meet the old wall at the top left of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1509722431510-J27B3RP3QG0NJKSPFZVF/IMG_0807+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29-001.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: The Chateau d'Angers and the Apocalypse Tapestry The portcullis at the field entrance on the south side of the Chateau d'Angers. This was the original entrance way. Notice the barbed wire over the bottom of the portcullis. It certainly won't keep rabbits or weasels out! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1509644524226-G6M1H9JCV5P6D50GWSC8/IMG_0809+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29-001.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: The Chateau d'Angers and the Apocalypse Tapestry A spot of lunch on the front lawn of the governor's mansion inside the walls of the Chateau d'Angers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1509723377924-DF7MBKLB7MJM8Y8I5IPR/IMG_20171103_092904.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: The Chateau d'Angers and the Apocalypse Tapestry Journal entry with my travel insurance claim information from Travel Guard. My way of taking out insurance on my insurance. (And, yes. On the left page, apparently I needed to use the facilities once more.) http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/11/16/i-was-on-the-radio-talking-about-bus-rapid-transit-in-boulder-county monthly 0.5 2017-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1510872897913-7L8GMBMUG3XCODA2XVB8/how-to-ride-bus.jpg Home - I Was on the Radio Talking about Bus Rapid Transit in Boulder County http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/10/26/run-carrot-run monthly 0.5 2017-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1509049558647-T7J3C2FXLNP6F00WRCJC/IMG_20170920_164830.jpg Home - Run Carrot Run! A Purple Carrot on the Run (from our Garden). http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-angers-cheer-foreign-language-laundry-and-still-bugged monthly 0.5 2017-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1506616199938-5M4UT5MOQ0JNYDEZ7HA6/659923_134_z.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Angers Cheer, Foreign Language Laundry, and Still Bugged Front entrance to the Hotel Mercure in Angers. Photo from ebooker.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1507171374335-D9SWVVW20WK7ALGM6Y07/IMG_0802+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Angers Cheer, Foreign Language Laundry, and Still Bugged View of the city from the ramparts of the Chateau d'Angers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1507175180730-R48O40G8S1A7Q0GP39DP/690634_c64904c0.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Angers Cheer, Foreign Language Laundry, and Still Bugged To help with imagining what a hill fort looks like: The remains of a hill fort in Gwynedd, Great Britain. Round hut bases at the SE end of the Tre'r Ceiri hill fort cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Eric Jones - geograph.org.uk/p/690634 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1506613852309-M4XEBNWHLWHODBYNJXJ9/ellenLaundry1_30+%282016_06_11+00_11_45+UTC%29.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Angers Cheer, Foreign Language Laundry, and Still Bugged It had to happen some time: Stuck in a laundromat in ancient Angers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1506617068532-DJMXUI25STF0HFYS4X1N/78153191_z.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Angers Cheer, Foreign Language Laundry, and Still Bugged A room at the Hotel Mercure in Angers. Photo from ebooker.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1506617167702-PAD7MH70GFO0BGKBBNK3/67020d81_z.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Angers Cheer, Foreign Language Laundry, and Still Bugged The bathroom at the Hotel Mercure in Angers. 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The clock tower houses a museum devoted to Joan of Arc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496290958984-OZX2M1CTKU6INAPA3543/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave The plaque that identifies the Chateau at Chinon as part of the Department of the Loire Valley, an historical landmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501117895693-Y9KFKSAGKRXNSSYOBH5T/1-IMG_0758.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Looking down at a lower level walkway from the top of Coudray Tower at the Chinon Chateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501118126105-9YXL864Y7LFBS6NUO6DJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave The Chinon Chateau from a view looking east across the river. I think the equipment in the foreground might be for dredging the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501118092309-1WVTZNC5JYHNVJNSBT87/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave A site drawing of the entire Chinon Chateau derived from original work by Agnès Dahan and used under the Copyleft Attitude Free Art License 1.3 (FAL 1.3). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501119085001-G5YCSQC4MC9675LVCJUE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Tour de Chiens. [Photo by "No machine-readable author provided. 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LonganimE assumed (based on copyright claims)."] Usage rights granted by Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501120480579-6HZ2GMWVSHBT9UR6WEFY/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave A view of the Tour de Boissay from the Tour de Courdray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501120739537-0FGQNFY6ZTYXKA7ODQBY/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Me in front of the restored Royal Residence. Photo by Mr. Pierre Romanet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496513777803-UR7UUA50V8A0148FRYBJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave A half-timbered building in Chinon housing a beautiful cafe at street level and probably apartments above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501123585954-WO6TP5ZBYLR8RS4IA9T3/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave A side chapel at the Church of St. Martin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501124162850-2WRTC38YYTYX7F1AFS33/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Figurines carved into an archway in the nave of the Church of St. Martin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501212853318-QB9AW1VMFZ7GTDJRR769/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Saint Martin and the Beggar by Unknown Master, Hungarian (active around 1490) (Web Gallery of Art: Image) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501363951474-AMXFWX3FXVBY1N96CVBF/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Where the Vienne spills into the Loire at the little town of Candes-St. Martin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1501364283794-06QUWU358V9KRXMJJT4G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Chinon Fortress, the Reluctant Bishop, and Another Wine Cave Walking with Pierre down the narrow alleys of Candes-St. Martin on our way back from lunch. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/5/31/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-abbey-at-fontevraud-eleanors-final-resting-place monthly 0.5 2017-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496289446612-W4UT2OH3L2TCFEDJ3HC1/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place Here I discover the burial place of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henry II (or at least most of him) lies next to her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496287647240-0AL7YMKVIT5UR8RZHCKX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place A view of the Abbey at Fontevraud from the gardens west of the complex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496289855564-5IGGPVQRKCOZ2DZRK2TU/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place My tour guide for the Abbey at Fontevraud, Mr. Pierre Romanet, who then drove me to several other sights, including a wine cave for a wine tasting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496288098612-KFHKKEDMF690COF8569G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place Entrance to the abbey refectory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1497823331028-1CBRJPPCVZH1VNAYGMN2/1-IMG_0737.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place The complex in front of the administration building. Pregnant black cat in center view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1498761504467-OEWZQP7DXGPIWHHYYC9Z/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place This quaint little cottage is actually an entryway to the abbey and part of the church building. Looks like it could have been the living quarters of a caretaker or, perhaps in earlier times, the home of the abbess or church reverend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1498761167800-XKIY3827MZKMVT4803TM/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place View into the interior of the chapter house at Fontevraud Abbey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1498705800464-UDUR61KH694QMCNSCS9S/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place A close-up of Eleanor of Aquitaine's effigy by ElanorGamgee (Fontevraud) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496288271050-MZJQJFG15YTR673GKNQR/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place An empty hall at the abbey. The limestone is degrading. Repairs are constantly being made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496289111618-5QG9N4PIKF7KW6FXZ8QG/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place Some of the abbesses appear in Renaissance paintings depicting Christ's life. Notice the dark figure with a white whimple in the lower right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1498089086327-WXT0TTNPXMW76S0NSFE4/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place Beheaded statuary everywhere at the abbey. Relic of the Wars of Religion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1497823726721-KEY7IFPZ6GXR3IWC66UI/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place An artist's "walkway" under construction over the cloister at the Abbey at Fontrevraud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496289536755-EIZU7R1USZFB7HQMYX9G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place The kitchens, called The Tour Evraud, at the Fontevraud Abbey. The "pine cone" roof adds a distinct character to these 12th-century buildings, which were renovated in the early 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496286661630-JY574QFTVDHZA8GRFM53/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place The ovens, probably added much after the original 12th-century kitchen building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496287032862-2GGCXAJLO9L4KUH78O6D/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place The chimney above one of the abbey ovens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1498099556750-DMEH14VMU744KEO19PIA/static1.squarespace.com.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place The ovens in the kitchen have ornate capitals on their columns like they were entrances to a great building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1496290327961-N6EF32ICAXMRLZWAD0MB/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Abbey at Fontevraud, Eleanor's Final Resting Place The small church or chapel at the abbey. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/4/2/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-unable-to-speak-at-le-mans-grumpy-gus-kindness-rudeness-then-irony-in-saumur monthly 0.5 2017-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1491178011157-I2R6ETSJALXRKDNJJ0L9/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1491178482195-9IKFEK59H2GI98I0RLXY/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur View from my balcony upon arriving mid-evening at the Hotel Mecure Bords de Loire Saumur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492051459323-E8SF5KP1FM3LTOPLVJ5H/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur View from my balcony as darkness descends at Saumur, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492052520307-B048F8WKL9ILN42FXUCO/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur Train at the Le Mans train station January 2011. Photo by jean-louis Zimmermann through Creative Commons 2.0 License CC BY 2.0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1491178611280-BR6SX8IPX19EFRL0GB3H/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur You can see the shadow of me taking this photo off my balcony as the sun was setting and after I finally got to my Saumur hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492053562650-Q0FFXNG98BKWSFERSFBX/1-IMG_0699.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur A view from the top of the hill overlooking the bridge and river, Saumur France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492053679432-FMYVVW75NDIYTM8P6TTZ/1-IMG_0663.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur The Saturday Market at Place St Pierre, Saumur, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1493349166009-JQLGN9WPO2L07UQ2YRE6/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur Enjoying the flowers at the Saturday Market Saumur, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492054050732-2ISEAFDTY7FWSYBX43PU/1-4_marketDayCheeseSaumur.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur A young father with a toddler on his back contemplates the cheese selection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492054375636-PIWNXW9F8OU0OUL5GB7S/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur The multitude of sacks of every kind of grain and dried herb or spice at the Saturday Market, Saumur, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492054523820-G9TV4V8NTYEXPIG1Y9UX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur The Irish pub where I spent a couple of pleasant meals with a sandwich and a Guinness in Saumur, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492054845162-L9HG46N59FP7WSUDNVN1/1-IMG_0697.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur The theater and rehearsal for what tonight will be a "luminary" or theatrical drama with lights and horses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492055051422-KEXMYF7EEZ07AQJ3Q965/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur The chateau at Saumur and its surrounding vineyards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492100737047-WQAS39Y2415M3QYNSF0S/1-IMG_0724.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur An empty street in the rain, Saumur France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492193283819-2NYHJRXX6IUGCM95Z3BV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur Saumur Dolmen Bagneux 2007 by Manfred Heyde (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492100525234-PKETC38NC1YRQRA53ZMT/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unable to Speak at Le Mans; Grumpy Gus; Kindness, Rudeness, then Irony in Saumur Underground at the Louis de Greneville Cave (winery). http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/4/17/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-reflections-on-time-travel-and-traveler-angst-and-what-ones-protagonist-might-do monthly 0.5 2017-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492445021683-MYSRJAVZHBJL6SNWRA3K/1-IMG_0642.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Reflections on Time Travel, Traveler Angst, and What One's Protagonist Might Do 15th-century painting of a saint, perhaps Paul, in the crypt below the church at Bayeux, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492445896455-O3MBPG4T27EIPVITTR6T/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Reflections on Time Travel, Traveler Angst, and What One's Protagonist Might Do The interior of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux. More beautiful than the exterior to my cursory view from my last night there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492446161341-A5SQKYFBUZRUL50PXUM8/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Reflections on Time Travel, Traveler Angst, and What One's Protagonist Might Do The grim, weathered outside of Bayeux Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492446419737-9T20W2ECD2H0Y7VQWJIO/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Reflections on Time Travel, Traveler Angst, and What One's Protagonist Might Do Paintings on a wall of the gallery at the Bayeux Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1492447388401-I5VOISTVH8KNZF0Z9EWA/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Reflections on Time Travel, Traveler Angst, and What One's Protagonist Might Do By Anonymous - "Eve spinning", folio 8r, detail from the Hunterian Psalter, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 229 (U.3.2) Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/3/16/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-mont-saint-michel-mont-saint-michel-tidal-flats-monk-footprints-and-gloomy-crypts monthly 0.5 2017-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489698908155-POOZC0UXE0HEI8VN4001/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Looking out from the top of Mont Saint-Michel. The sand flats lead out to the ocean in the background. In the foreground is one of the towers added to the abbey in the 19th century . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489716636316-KFJ8A9ZYMERYP8OQT3FS/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Morris giving our little tour group our instructions before we explored Mont Saint-Michel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489717104928-YZZR8NZOVM9UJ7TI4YHP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Steep stairs near the monks dormitory level where the original chapel was. This way up to the abbey! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489716910434-VDUN8IRR3HOMUOOTY03F/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The one street on the island of Mont Saint-Michel going up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489717169633-0HHRBN6U0VUMIX4NWRKN/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Looking down about midway up the Mont at maintenance going on at the base of the island. The workers drove their vehicles into the sand flats. Hope the tide is not coming in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489717517207-257KS5UNF1NZJ6PUQ74A/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Some of the 50-odd residents of the island live in houses clustered at the foot of Mont Saint-Michel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489717694093-MKIXA5TC7BD6WKU4KRUX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts This was a bustling area at the base of the Mont. Turns out: restrooms. And a gift shop. And originally where priests greeted pilgrims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489717757934-M018K1VMCFOUK7VCSYDE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The "elevator" that officials used to haul up supplies for prisoners during the 18th century. A large wheel in the room at the top was used to pull the items up by a pulley system . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489776002919-SLKOIBY2CEQDO795JC0Y/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Holy crow! We are up in the air! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489776042026-0S8LGEQR7GXJ186RQYU3/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The Gothic Choir east of the main abbey church's nave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489778326614-2V4H96462IWWFTXL1650/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The cloister near the monks' quarters with the garden at center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489969079814-PNY9WFI0I82WLFNT59CM/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The beauty of worn wood, reddish tiles and stone walls in the monks' dining hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489969324212-4EKPPN00BRFCUDQ9QKKU/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The flooring was exquisite in places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489969233763-EGP5Q24DUUR0NYFAZ015/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Good thing there were carpenters about to connect the rooms that weren't quite at the same level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490231844851-V4LCAHMW3TEY2QJL8Q7T/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Another, smaller island, Tombelaine, spied through old glass near the main hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490233124785-PP5QAUITUMYKBM1YC4EY/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts An ancient mosaic on the floor of an entranceway, worn from the treading of thousands upon thousands of feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490039892901-29T9J0J08ZX16U92I72C/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The wheel used to haul goods to the top of the Mont when there was a prison there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489968645077-GAAM80BDDGVXCG7WDSA0/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The stair where everyone was headed up from a basement I had not explored yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489717953362-I700Y985I1L7YQGVX070/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The Carolingian style architecture of the original church underneath the current abbey. This served as the monks quarters once the new abbey was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490234289068-ZJ1VWD5PCLEWZOIKIJAB/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Starting my descent from the top of Mont Saint-Michel back to the parking lot where Morris would be waiting with the shuttle van. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489775241057-PC0YXMABU3WA67M6JVGD/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The "land side" of the island and abbey. A strong foundation of native rock and human engineering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490238649724-BN59PDES5V297WWE5PFP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts A statue of the Virgin Mary in a garden on my way to see the Bayeux Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490234959073-N0RFLQTZW4DVQ4CTS14O/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The interior of the Bayeux Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490236831933-J95GCQWNJ0AU6PHHIDZN/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts Harold touching two altars as he swore an oath to Duke William of Normandy in what appears to be Bayeux Cathedral. From the Bayeux Tapestry. By Myrabella - Own work, Public Domain. Wikimedia commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490238269064-UGZMU2WM7V2MEVXBHAIK/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts The crypt below the Bayeux Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1490238087111-IVR9R6EXRBFQOAM6HG2Y/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Mont Saint-Michel, Tidal Flats, Monk Footprints, and Gloomy Crypts 15th century painting on a pillar in the crypt underneath Bayeux Cathedral. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/3/8/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-roundabouts-and-ring-roads-800-years-too-early-and-the-bayeux-tapestry monthly 0.5 2017-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489027686503-8OMXRI0ICRSJ9VGE0DIS/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry The entrance to the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489109650041-FZLF90B4BAL8PE6G2FA0/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry View of the southbound (towards Caen) platform at Gare de Bayeux, 29 October 2011, by Nick-D (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489031180549-N845UHYR9ON19Y5ENU1P/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry My scribbled directions to Hotel Churchill from the Bayeyx train station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489029578235-VOTYAWX721SNV9KWMI29/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry A view from one of the bridges over the Aure River, which flows through the old city center of Bayeux. Planters of flowers were everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489031282895-KOFS3QH65YTHN5M4UURH/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry The front desk at the Hotel Churchill Bayeux. The hotel has since become part of a larger hotel system with the addition of the new Villa Lara Hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489031845948-VHF3CN6THYXDN2OW4F1S/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry A close-up of the key cabinet on the wall across from the front desk at the Hotel Churchill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489031436420-RXJZDZL7MJ2E3796DOA2/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry The view from the walkway over the inner courtyard of the old Hotel Churchill that led to my quarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489034044517-67W4WOSZDUTDFTETU4YJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry My room at the Hotel Churchill with my handy-dandy HP mini running Linux, which allowed my to process and post photos as I traveled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489032876771-ILTKGFC4ADZHLD7B61NJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry Picture of Bayeux tapestry behind glass at the museum in Bayeux, France. Photo by Dave of Travelin' Tigers, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489033696896-2PZL8B2ZJYTZODEL5MJQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry Detail in the Bayeux Tapestry showing the Battle of Hastings, England, 1066. By Unknown Weaver, English (active c. 1080) (Web Gallery of Art: ImageInfo about artwork) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1489033934035-PC2HZQ35MAS1E5F5YMH8/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Roundabouts and Ring Roads, 800 Years Too Early, and the Bayeux Tapestry Water wheel along the Aure River in the center of Bayeux, France. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/2/16/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-standing-with-lions-stumbling-on-an-archaeological-dig-and-shooing-a-fly monthly 0.5 2017-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487267377068-FAFSVK6QJGZWQTM1DBBV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly The gates of the castle at Caen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487267479270-Y3Y2RTRCVJZLWYKT8XIL/1-IMG_0545.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly The foundation of the Caen fortress in ruins. It covers about 14 acres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487267574378-8FZDACLSDBAXUCB2PHEN/1-IMG_0547.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly The flag of William I, the lion, in Caen, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487267891968-0NQGEM17842OR0C3XBY4/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly Love the colors in the stone "streets" of the fortress at Caen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487268016126-ZUA9UN5NL7FULK9MCGBI/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly The Échiquier de Normandie inside the walls of the fortress at Caen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487268372381-NSNNMMDIL5WJ0A6PBJMR/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly Did the the Exchequer of Normandy house a jail in the basement? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487268167902-TNUK6KC6QWRZ16801S3G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly A view of downtown Caen from the ramparts of the fortress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487268455616-DGIAOSCHMV0PVYWF39OD/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly An archeologist/professor lecturing the crowd at a just-discovered Roman site in the center of Caen, June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487268639374-TZSVPW9F2OCZEQ6JNLI5/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Standing with Lions, Stumbling on an Archaeological Dig, and Shooing a Fly Hypocaust under the floor in a Roman villa in Vieux-la-Romaine, near Caen, France in January 2006 by Valdavia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/2/15/days monthly 0.5 2017-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1487187009655-FVQR64MJY92PLL4N7WZK/image-asset.png Home - Days Pixabay released under Creative Commons CC0. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/1/29/dear-humans-happy-winter-2016-2017 monthly 0.5 2017-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1486008743932-C0JLJHVHYBK8KL1QGJ2G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Dear Humans: Happy Winter 2016-2017! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1486008788236-YM5B7K5O7VB7Y0Q7NB54/image-asset.jpeg Home - Dear Humans: Happy Winter 2016-2017! http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/1/22/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-bill-the-bastards-birthplace-and-road-rage monthly 0.5 2017-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100539160-BE32C6QHRKHDRF0ZE63N/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485111947800-FVF6LYE7WK7MCB4XBBVA/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Hotel Mercure Caen. Photo prise par sylvrgirl : "Hotel" (May 2012) via TripAdvisor France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485116418757-OX2FBH4NRRPK09CI7N4U/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage A view of Caen looking southeast from the walls of Caen's medieval fortress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100717845-B3U8P6360KT91MV5MQB7/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Place Reine Mathilde where Matilda of Flanders rests in a crypt at the Abbey aux Dames https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100755895-PHG6RQHX38EG4EBYHPP2/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Deteriorating edifice at the Abbey aux Dames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100782005-Y9GL8UDI0Q3UT6IU8KHX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Door at the main entrance to the Abbey aux Dames featuring metal strapwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100819346-948VGTH9OZT04L21RWJK/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Abbey aux Dames today with it's spires replaced by blocky towers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485121231291-62LRWB5GY9G7G7S59PYO/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage View of the entrance to Falaise Castle from atop the battlements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100924301-PLX6D697VIHOI04ES6TY/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Looking down through the glass and steel structure built to help hold up the Falaise Chateau and to help visitors see its insides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485100964018-XSYE8BZBBCH883F5U0YN/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage I imagine this is my antagonist, Maël, having to do his duty and clean the loo after he found his coat hanging there. Medieval folk thought that the uric acid protected clothing from vermin. That's why the privy was called a guarderobe or wardrobe... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485101034626-E2NTRWELPS7VF18B8VKG/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Arrow loops through which archers would let loose their arches looking like they were just carved out of the limestone at the Falaise Chateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485101076772-SW3NKXXC5PI3ELC6VGGK/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Wildflowers along the base of the wall at Falaise Chateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485101148060-28STK1Y8E9RA3VFXKDJ9/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Countryside somewhere in France. It gives the general feel of the countryside I was driving through with Anne like a bat out of hell. Image from Pixabay taken in 2011 by tpsdave and released under Creative Commons CC0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1485110671699-41OQZ53NLAWPZB71WRWB/512px-Reflets_de_France_Cidre.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Bill the Bastard's Birthplace, Cider, and Road Rage Normandy Cider by User: Mahlum (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2017/1/7/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-tough-alone-and-inspired monthly 0.5 2017-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483849642443-2XLEN30TIW9SGP2KAH9Y/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired An old barn in the Burgundy countryside in Saint Fargeau, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483849772828-SXKXPRLNRFFH7EZ59ZGO/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired A footbridge over an irrigation ditch in Saint Fargeau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483849827833-2E7N094B0PY1HF06OS6T/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired Horses grazing in a field. Saint Fargeau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483849855172-EUE7PD4B49YKDDHA78UL/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired Old farmhouse looking worse for wear but still inhabitable. Maybe. Saint Fargeau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483849988874-CVJ89T0H2CXBXDVOUBEL/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483850077378-OVXQ21TDW5ZE9BCVJXPQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483850135729-XO1CYMKOHTOY1SB3WMKU/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired A man carries his shopping home along a narrow street in Auxerre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483984850098-PBNKV7R5QUHVWDUUKREB/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Tough, Alone, and Inspired Jean Seberg in à bout de souffle 1960 from https://www.pinterest.com/unefemme/gamine-style/ http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/12/29/eight-weekeurope-solo-travel-2011-building-a-castle-at-guedelon monthly 0.5 2017-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483200080136-HZXLREWCW9XDDJ59K1JX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The main entrance to Guédelon castle under construction on June 3, 2011, Burgundy, France. The Great Tower is on the right and the Chapel Tower can just be seen on the left, slightly behind the residence. The bridge in the foreground spans the ditch, which will become a moat. One gate tower is to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483199773381-QHIW86WPXE0T3YXCFPTG/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The bike I rented at Hotel Les Grande Chenes to take me to Guédelon Forest. My water bottle and hat ride in the basket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483201604369-AULWZ06CQR30WII8AUUE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon One of the Gate Towers under construction along the curtain wall. The wood construction on top forms the frame for the mortar and stone edifice that will be built around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483200885726-QHZBA0XSOJ7K61U3MRIK/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The overgrown quarry on site at Guédelon. The good stone has already been cut away. These slabs are probably not red enough to indicate the quality needed for construction of the castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483230215439-T3ABG9XGDWX28HC1WTXM/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon Sandstone that has been selected for a specific purpose and dressed appropriately. Arrows mark the direction of the outside face. Each stone is signed by the stonecutter so the quality of the work can be monitored and appropriate payment can be made. Limestone sits, dressed and ready, at the top of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483214841680-8PMD4NSFVT906YDZU4WV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The small Chapel Tower under scaffolding on the west side of the main residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483215374982-MMIRIQJFJND81FYPND7I/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The joists in place for the floor of the lord's solar or private chambers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483215501600-UY58GTDPL5V7CX3K3YWH/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The second floor "two light" window on the south side of the residence with a quatrefoil stone carving above and seats below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483216132527-B4E6AO2R4URRAALVPXUT/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon A cook baking bread and pies in the residence kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483300079621-QSQHNWIGJ30537IEKXBP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon Female horse handler feeding the workhorse while a male horse handler and a child tourist look on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483229935481-ZAFHL4IQ8T8IZ2EKTZ6B/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon A stonecutter dressing sandstone for use in building the castle walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483225775414-5Y4UXDST1CDAXG0586YV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon One of the workhorses and a burro share a pen during off-work hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483225558563-EVNY8Q287G46BTDKNXO3/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The dyer's cottage at Guédelon. Dyed threads hang out front. The roof is hand-shingled with rough hewn strips of wood with the bark still attached. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483226448773-N23XZYGHQ5MGQ94X6FNW/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The blacksmith, Martin Claudel, pounding an iron tool into shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483231861134-JLN8S0U2T5VRVRH44PON/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The rope maker at Guédelon, Yvon Herouart, now retired, explaining the rope walk, Burgundy, France. From original 1600x900-pixel image copyright 2010 mediea at http://mittelzeit.blogspot.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483300685543-J5AA7LJIF09R9MCMQJFE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon Pigs rolling in the mud behind the rope maker's shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483303101747-8OCBANWPH66BK1UIZ1I7/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The tiler's kiln. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1483232921443-P6QM0C9IVVF114UJ3NEV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Building a Castle at Guédelon The garden behind the dyer's cottage. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/12/17/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-a-drive-through-burgundy monthly 0.5 2016-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482077225414-L6J8TNWX757WCEMAR7KS/1-02_oldcityAuxerre.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy The horloge or clock tower at the center of the old town in Auxerre, Burgundy, France. Also notice the golden boot to the left of the tower. above a la botte d'or or "The Golden Boot" shoe store. June 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482021635390-20VFHIS2EBV6QDCOZO7R/1-05_boatingRiverAuxerre.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy Looking out at the Yonne River from the boardwalk behind the Hôtel Le Maxime. It was a busy port the weekend I was there. Many boats were either traveling the river or tied up at the docks. Auxerre, France. June 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482022845046-Z0EOE00E1JRB2Z5EIBQZ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy This picture was taken in Poitiers at the Hotel Le Grande, but it illustrates how I ate dinner alongside Julie Child via my kindle e-reader. Poitiers, France June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482023146321-DUP6NWY2SDZQYLYOM123/1-houseBlueShuttersAuxerre.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy Apparently Auxerre has been through harder times recently with the worldwide recession. Some homes and buildings looked run-down and in need of repair. This house, however, was beautiful and it was obvious that a loving hand was at work keeping the sky blue shutters painted and the roses thriving in the garden. Auxerre, France. June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482023496567-GRDMHXFE68ZQNKJEHQ4C/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy The driveway entrance to the Hôtel Les Grande Chenes. I loved the beautiful, old oak trees! Saint Fargeau, Burgundy, France. June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482023686110-DAKYZBUNEOJI84QICZRP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy Rachael, the proprietor of Hôtel Les Grande Chenes, greeted me upon my arrival there after a beautiful drive up a lane surrounded by oak trees. Saint Fargeau, France. June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482023793370-3D5EROQS433QYOKPVWD1/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy The breakfast room/dining area for guests at the Hôtel Les Grande Chenes. I really felt energized by the bright colors in the morning when I arrived for breakfast. The stairs on the far right led up to a landing off of which was my room as well as several guest rooms. A few rooms were on the first floor off the dining area through the doors on the left of the photo. Saint Fargeau, France. June 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1482023955105-Y5M19XW988I5AFOVNFMZ/1-IMG_0449.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: A Drive through Burgundy The courtyard in front of one of the entrances to the Saint Fargeau Chateau. This picture was taken from the patio of the Sar la Demoiselle restaurant where I ate dinner the night before heading off to Guédelon. You can see the shadow of me and my camera across the sandwich board advertising the restaurant menu. Saint Fargeau, France. June 2011. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/12/8/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-exploring-the-middle-ages-at-the-cluny monthly 0.5 2016-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481253855508-CXTPK6SU5FWVV5D94JHB/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny Standing in front of the door to the tower of the Cluny museum, which according to Wikipedia was used by Charles Messier to make observations of the night sky, perhaps in aid of finishing the important Messier catalog. Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481253491424-NM4DR0I1WA3WG2KHVAY3/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny My shrimp, tomato and melon salad with thousand island dressing. It certainly looks good! At Café Richard at the Pavilion de la Fontaine in the Jardin du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Gardens), Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481253327112-9IDBL96FCPDA8PMNPPLO/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny View from my table at Café Richard at the Pavilion de la Fontaine in the Jardin du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Gardens), Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481253186623-1XNFSGPSK28M8IMMWJUE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny The entranceway to the frigidarium. The archway probably came from the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481252808703-J39XGCR229PP4ZXKGFDQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny A cracked capital showing crude figures that used to top a column at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481252704752-XS365I1M6GFV9QE8VT20/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny This tombstone, although quite faded, shows traces of red coloring. I am guessing the person buried under it was an important holy woman, probably an Abbess. Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481250177794-RWKBFNOV2FQZ3VAN6YWG/1-IMG_0383.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny Heads of the kings of Judah -- sculptures of them anyway. During the French Revolution they were mutilated and buried because the rebels thought they represented the Kings of France. Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481250060249-VW00WY87UL8039PA1227/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny Although I would love to tell you these are the bodies that go with the heads in the previous photo, they aren't. These statues are also from Notre Dame. I think one of them is Saint Stephen. Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481249930444-BWKFNZXRKTEH5LAT4717/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny Stain glass windows originally from St. Denis circa 1140-1144 and commissioned by Abbott Sugar. Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1481249824036-GUALBNOMUEX8A50VSSB0/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Exploring the Middle Ages at the Cluny The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries (c.1500), Musée de Cluny / Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France By Spencer Means(Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.0]. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/11/27/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-unexpected-pleasure-in-dresden monthly 0.5 2016-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480366006388-ZRADVRBIMT73TJ0GIF7V/1-23_ellenEgyptianStatuePalaceRiverElbeDresden+%281%29.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden Me standing in a palace courtyard along the River Elbe and getting chummy with one of the many statues, May 2011. Thanks to Lisa Larsen for the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480366327006-TA6FAOBWH0H0LWWGIWVR/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden Me drinking my first fresh German beer at a biergarten in Dresden, Germany, May 2011. If I remember correctly, it was a hefeweizen. Thanks to Lisa Larsen for the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480366568965-XQQYRPYPMGZKOHTQ6503/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden The Zwinger palace, the main palace of Augustus the Strong, built in the 18th century. A tour group convenes below me as I stand on the walkway above. Dresden, Germany, May 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480366767391-E29WAY3J9738OVR9STC0/1-36_viewFromFrauenkircheDresden.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden View from the top of the Frauenkirche looking south along the River Elbe with both very old and very modern architecture. Dresden, German, May 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480367266716-MDBFYOM7EVTJC9QNOZA4/1-26_RiverElbeAltstadtFaceWestDresden.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden Looking west along the Elbe River in Altstadt from “the Balcony of Europe” where Bruhlsche Garten is located. Dresden, German, May 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480366978016-851W6MWJHD483J4PHIH1/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden Hanging out at a popular watering hole with old and new friends in Neustadt, Dresden, Germany, May 2011. Thanks to Dave Larsen for the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480367081831-BRY34PGLAIKBRMTZ0ULD/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden The water marks measuring the level of the flood waters over the centuries in Konigstein on the Elbe River. The river has flooded several times more since my visit in May 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480548191603-SB1PZ75JKZT7L93Y02RV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden Waiting for the ferry to return so Lisa and I can float across the Elbe to the wine garden on top of the hill behind me. Rathen, Germany, May 2011. Thanks to Lisa Larsen for the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480549248695-7TQLJU1VGFDJEEEZL1LP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden That's me enjoying a brew on the Rathen ferry, aka "floating biergarten." Germany, May 2011. Photo by Lisa Larsen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480549455228-HKNX252HCFBZ6E3NDALQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden At the top of the cliff at Rathen. Such incredible rock formations, worn down by centuries of sun, wind, and rain. Notice the "fingers" of the "hand" behind me. Kind of cut off at the knuckle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480549634201-DUHVEE95L4F72QVS18QK/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden Breathtaking views from the cliffs above Rathen, Germany, looking south down into the Elbe River Valley. May 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480549739473-A2OIG5ZM2C2OALCC3GCX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden The steamboat back to Meissen arrives at the dock in Rathen, Germany. May 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480549986380-FKHKU3DGAH9IEP081WHC/1-IMG_0305.JPG Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden The main entrance to one of the palaces along the Elbe and facing the river. Many of these former royal residences and "pleasure palaces" have been converted into cafes/museums/theaters with lovely and extensive gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480550743429-O1CQ0OZ08UNLROQ45PQG/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden My friends, Dave and Lisa toasting me at a wine garden on the Elbe River after our tour of the "pleasure places." Dresden, Germany. May 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480550919684-Y67QPKR98VBPPF47Z7WA/1-50_barCityBeachDresden.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden The City Beach biergarten and bar on the boardwalk of the Elbe River, We've got the palm fronds, the surfboards and the sand. Dresden, Germany. May 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480551158006-HBL314NZ7RIKOO2LN218/1-03_roseGardenCafe.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden The Rose Garden Cafe where I spent part of my last day in Dresden, getting ready for my return to Paris and the work of my research. May 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1480551324841-21WBCESSV77FJQAYH8WL/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Unexpected Pleasure in Dresden As soon as I got back to Paris, I headed back to the Restaurant L'Etoile du Berger (Shepherd's Star) and had the specialty of the house: fondue. May 2011. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/11/19/eight-week-european-solo-travel-2011-half-destroyed-and-living-history monthly 0.5 2016-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479617541028-ROR4L0MRW2U4TP5HEO9J/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History Dresden Castle seen from Zwinger, Altstadt, Dresden, Germany 5/27/2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479690137437-T1JOKYE5D8W9XAZWUW0O/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History View of the surrounding mossy roofs from my friend's deck in Dresden, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479748457083-QR6AMXKV40VNTGOQK001/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History The entrance to the Markthall or grocery in Neustadt, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479748365977-HJ5D1STKTP5B3GHVMBY8/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History Fountain in the courtyard of my friend's apartment building in Dresden, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479691072725-BHKL3X1ESZHUDH12JZGW/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History The still dilapidated villa next to my friend's apartment building in Neustadt, Dresden, Germany. My friend's building used to look like this a few years before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479755835803-72WO7HU3RJLOAZGYY1B0/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History The original cross from the top of the Freuenkirch after it had been melted by incindiary bombs dropped by the U.S. and Britain during World War II. By Wilhelmy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479756182175-56FJ3CLJIR0C8E1LIMMR/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History Construction on the top of one of the walls of the Zwinger Palace, Dresden, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1479756379343-I1B0NQK1UHB6MQ50KB0C/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Half Destroyed and Living History My salad at the Rose Cafe, Dresden, Germany. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/11/9/eight-week-eruope-solo-travel-the-eleanor-vase-geek-out monthly 0.5 2016-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1478746476141-91ZOIRPZTH07V9YEMJ95/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Eruope Solo Travel: The Eleanor Vase! Geek Out! The Eleanor Vase, circa 7th century Persian, complete with Abbot Sugar's neck and base, circa 1150's French. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1478746749996-5JVWDCRFL4P74GWUV1FL/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Eruope Solo Travel: The Eleanor Vase! Geek Out! Me at the Louvre examining the Eleanor Vase. I was lucky to get another museum visitor to take my picture. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/11/2/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-paris-where-to-pee-in-subway-at-louvre-or-directly-on-eurrail-pass monthly 0.5 2016-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1478141162951-4AW380NLWLKAAXVWUBBQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Paris. Where to Pee? In Subway, at Louvre, or Directly on EurRail Pass? Pixabay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1478140790851-UTTOIGKGZA0PIS4N0CR5/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Paris. Where to Pee? In Subway, at Louvre, or Directly on EurRail Pass? Gare d'Austerlitz subway station by Vincent BABILOTTE (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1478141111383-6ABU7G3ICR51E4BNFUY4/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Paris. Where to Pee? In Subway, at Louvre, or Directly on EurRail Pass? Gare d'Austerlitz Paris Train Station by ignis (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1478142282259-KLTUO31WXQCA3KSKKQKV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Paris. Where to Pee? In Subway, at Louvre, or Directly on EurRail Pass? My EurRail Pass from Spring 2011 all filled in. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/10/26/dont-turn-right-at-the-left-bank monthly 0.5 2016-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477529528493-XRMXSNTJZKLGEQ84161G/Gare_Du_Nord_Interior%2C_Paris%2C_France_-_Diliff.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Don't Turn Right at the Left Bank By Diliff (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477528795686-GJIJ7HQ8SA2UUHED074S/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Don't Turn Right at the Left Bank Nicole and me eating our one meal in England (at St. Pancras station) before getting on the EuroStar train to Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477530985233-4511S4TZBGJ2Y4VSSUCT/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Don't Turn Right at the Left Bank One of the photos adorning the walls of my room at the Hotel Quartier Latin. I believe this shows Collette writing in bed, but I was not able to confirm this with the hoteliers. Anyone? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477530831683-68WB5S8UBENBKTJW3QK1/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Don't Turn Right at the Left Bank My favorite restaurant on the Left Bank: Restaurant L'Etoile du Berger (roughly translated as the Shepherd's Star Restaurant). I did, indeed, come back here for the fondue after I returned from Dresden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477530663139-JKLPDW1TQ91UG18458Y6/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Don't Turn Right at the Left Bank My room at the Hotel Quartier Latin, Paris. http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2016/10/19/eight-week-europe-solo-travel-2011-show-me-the-gang-plank monthly 0.5 2016-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477005466085-1U2H77P6UIFCEYRM4LLT/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Show Me the Gang Plank! By Trondheim Havn from Trondheim, Norway - Queen Mary 2 Uploaded by beagle84, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477002444244-NCPL1Z1PN0TWH2L0NR1U/image-asset.jpeg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Show Me the Gang Plank! One of the presents Bianca, my steward, left in my cabin aboard the Queen Mary 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703fea422482ebc144483ac/1477005821993-46O3XQKGLX0XVBNDTAMT/1-ellenAscotBallQueenMary2052011.jpg Home - Eight-Week Europe Solo Travel 2011: Show Me the Gang Plank! 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