Walk: 7km; total: 215km
Not the best nights sleep for both of us and consequently we slept in till just after 7am. Breakfast at this hotel looks fancy, with tables already set with a bread basket (1 wholemeal baguette, 1 white baguette, 1 custard/sultana scroll, and 1 croissant), pots of jam (strawberry or orange), honey, butter, and crockery and cutlery. Coffee was made to order and they even have decaf for Greg. Wendy was hoping for bacon and eggs, however settled for the bread and jam.
We found a town map in the hotel lobby so after breakfast we planned our day. We soon realised it was not going to be a very long day and as the Château only opens at 10am, we planned around that. We walked over the Sully Bridge and back across the railway viaduct. We spotted what looked to be a church, and when we got there, it used to be a church but is now a concert hall. We couldn’t go inside so not sure what it looks like now. Back into the town centre and it was time to visit the Château. Hmmmm. One needs to pay more attention to the fine print; it is closed on Mondays, except if the Monday is a Bank Holiday! Oh well, the views were not too bad, and after all, it may have turned out to be just ABC!
We returned to the markets to see if we could find a coffee and something to eat for mornos. We couldn’t find anything and decided we’d had enough coffee for the day, so purchased a few things at Carrefour and took them back to our room. Greg didn’t feel like lunch so Wendy ventured out to a boulangerie and found a prosciutto and cheese baguette that fed the worms nicely.
Greg went out again after a little rest and came home with afternoon tea. No sooner had he arrived, than it started to rain, with a noisy thunderstorm to accompany it. We were going to dine at the Tavern tonight, however when Greg walked passed in this afternoon, he said because it was on a very busy road it did not look that appealing. Option two was pizza, with option three being Chinese again. Chinese won, probably due to the fact that it was the closest.
Whilst it was not a full-on day, we have both enjoyed the slower pace.
Breakfast
The breakfast room
Memorial to a number of wars the French have been involved in - WW1 and WW2, Vietnam, and Algeria
View from our bathroom window
View from our window this morning - market day
Fromage - yummmmm
The old railway viaduct from the Sully Bridge
What used to be Church of Saint German, now a concert hall
Château and surrounds, parts of the Château date back to the 12th Century, so we presume S-s-L must be around that age too
Built in the 12th Century as a hospice for the poor, homeless, sick, passers-by, and pilgrims. In 1965 it was named the François Kuypers Centre, as a tribute to a woman who was both a doctor and a pharmacist and worked at the centre and the attached hospital (behind the centre) attending all who attended, and to those injured and sick soldiers during WW2
The statue is of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully who launched a campaign, in 1602, to salvage the Château; why they put him there in front of the centre that has nothing to do with him, we can only but imagine.
Church of Saint Ythier
A replica of the cave of Lourdes
Promenade around the Château
A neat garage and house in S-s-L
View from our room during the rain
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