Wednesday 24th June. Today we are visiting Notre-Dame-de-Marceille in the village of Limoux and the mysterious castle of Rennes-le-Chateau. Over the last few days I have heard so many stories about Saint Martha, St Salome, the connection between Grimm’s fairytales and the stores of St Germaine. Stories of Mary after she came to France, stories […]
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Alet-les-Bains We leave Saint Maries-del-le-Mer after breakfast…our first stop is Tarascon. The patron saint of Tarascon is St Martha. Legend says St Martha of Judea landed at Tarascon and helped the townspeople to tame an amphibious dragon, which was destroying the river traffic and butchering the people of the village. A beautiful church, St Martha’s […]
Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is on the Méditerranéen Sea. This is said to be the place Mary Magdalene came ashore, together with some of her family, friends and servants. The village became known as Notre-Dame-de-Ratis…a reference to the three Mary’s who arrived from Alexandria by boat, Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacobe and Mary Salome. Our hotel is […]
St Maximin-la-Ste. Baume The small town of St Maximin-la-Ste Baume sits in the central Var department in the South of France. Here can be found the magnificent Basilique Ste-Marie Madeleine, an 18th Century town hall and the 14th Century Royal convent with its central cloister, our home for the next two nights. We settle ourselves […]
Secrets of the Cathars & Mysteries of the Magdalene Tour June 2015 October 2014 and a friend mentions a book, ‘The Book of Love.’ This book is an ancient tome hidden somewhere in a small Tuscan village, a gospel according to Jesus Christ. History and reading, my two loves…I jump on the Internet and […]
Wednesday morning Duncan picked us up from the hotel and dropped us at the airport. We were now on the last leg of our African sojourn, exotic Zanzibar. Arrival was crazy. We had to fill in forms for Ebola and pay another $50US each for a visa. This was the third time…Zimbabwe, Zambia and Zanzibar. […]
Gorillas in the Mist Our flight out of Victoria Falls was delayed by an hour. Finally we were on our way arriving in Johannesburg by evening. Tonight we stayed in the Casino. Fortunately there was a food court attached so we ate in an Italian restaurant then back to our rooms for an early pick […]
The Victoria Falls Wednesday 13th August we left Ngoma Lodge and drove to the Botswana and Zambia border, but this time there would be no road or bridge crossing. There would be nothing conventional about this crossing. This time we were going by a simple punt. A vehicular ferry is the only means of crossing […]
Botswana Ten o’clock the next morning the train pulled into Victoria Falls Zimbabwe. Disembarking we went in search of our driver eventually locating him and his Wild Horizons four wheel drive. We left the train station and drove to the border of Zimbabwe and Botswana. When we passed into Zimbabwe on the train, we paid […]
The Rovus Rail Our flight from Skukuza to Johannesburg was via a small jet. We were the only three aboard. We giggled like schoolgirls as the hostess came to stand beside us for the obligatory safety demonstration. After take off we moved from seat to seat, trying them all, because we could. We felt very […]