A delightful day of little villages perched on knolls overlooking the flat agricultural land between the forests of Fontainebleu and orleans. Each village grouped around a medieval church.
This one built in 13th century features a variant on a doom painting on the wall. In this apparently quite widespread tableau of the living and the dead three well to do young gentlemen pictured here on the right on horseback encounter three more sinister figures (too feint for this camera sadly) who are of course their deaths. Not even wealth and power will.protect you is the message and reflects a time of anarchy and suffering when this whole region echoed to the drumbeat of wars that persisted for a 100 year epoch. The cross suggests that piety and faith were your only chance - hmm not sure how well that turned out.
But after culture stops comes the food stop and when you luck into a busy little place knocking out plats de jour for 8 euro you pull those brakes on pretty sharpish.
That evening on teaching Combreux I took advantage of a delightfully situated and wild boar free campsite and slept soundly.
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