Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 9: Meditations on the Fabled Porch (Narthex) and Nave of the Basilica of Mary Magdalene…
The life and times of critically acclaimed author David Downie in Paris and Rome, France and Italy.
Category: France
Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 8: The Friends of Compostela at Vézelay, and the Rebirth of the Modern Pilgrimage Route …
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 6, Vézelay with Scallops à la Saint Jacques
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 6, Vézelay with Scallops à la Saint Jacques
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 6, Vézelay with Scallops à la Saint Jacques These blog posts are taken directly from my…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 5 To Vezelay from Sermizelles (not a disease) These blog posts are taken directly from…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 4 to To Vezelay on a Toy Train These blog posts are taken directly from…
Please come to the latest event to mark the publication of my travel adventure-memoir, Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way…
Anyone who thinks the modern French are not still obsessed by the tragiheroic figure of Vercingetorix ought to think again. This is the guy who…
It's not often that I share a lede and link to a review of one of my books, but this one is so outstanding…
If you've been following this blog you know that when Alison Harris and I set out to cross France we started in Vezelay (well,…