La Couvertoirade pt. 3

At the back of the town, on the hill with the old Templar fort, is where the church is located. The church was actually built well after the Templars had been disbanded, so I think its safe to say that while they were still in business probably the only thing present …

La Couvertoirade pt. 2

Sorry, been a little under the weather the last few days. Winter is here, for sure.

So, the interior of the Couvertoirade was pretty cool. The whole thing was probably not bigger than a football field, and most of the houses are actually crafts people, artisans, …

La Couvertoirade

La Couvertoirade is a little fortified town on the Larzac plateau, started by the Templars and then handed over to the Hospitaliers after their dissolution.

As usual, I just went off on an hour long tangent on Wiki, but I will just leave you with the fact that La …

La Cavalerie

There are a number of Templar and Hospitalier sites on the Larzac plateau. Presumably, this is because the Moors made their way all the way into France via Spain went they went on their little run, and the Larzac plateau is the direction one might take on a march to …

Travel writing

I just submitted my first ever travel article to a the English News, a newspaper in english here in France. I've been kind of using the blog for practice, as well as to collect my thoughts on what I wanted to write about, before submitting to them.

I've never done …

Wikipedia

I was going to do a post today on our visits to the several Templar sites we visited in Aveyron. But before I got into it, I wanted to take a look at Catharism, since there was some relationship to the Templars. So I hit up good ol Wiki.

As a result, I ended up …

Will you be surprised?

So, I went into conspiracy mode a little bit this morning, and as always, interesting stuff abounds.

I saw this first item a while back, and yet it still stuns me today. Unfortunately, this doesn't get much play in the mainstream media at all- apparently when this …

I don't hate Apple

Just the iTards who use their products-

Via Fake Steve Jobs

Actually, a lot of my friends use Macs and they are all more of the level-headed types than the people so accurately described in that article.

And they are all highly intelligent people except in one …

Zeitgeist

I checked this out today and although its an 'internet' film, it definitely is something you should see.

I decided to do some investigating on my own after viewing it, and came across this quote by Sen. Charles Lindbergh in 1913

"The worst legislative crime of the …

Almost killed my old ass 2

Ok, so now that you know the plan of le old VTT trek, here is how it actually went down.

The first part of the trek is mostly downhill on some village roads, and the VTT trail markers were really easy to spot. Once I hit dirt, again for my first true mountain biking …

Almost killed my old ass

So, on one of our last days in Aveyron, I decided to do a little VTT trek (velo tout terrain, or mountain bike). My one friend in LA that reads this blog knows that I did a lot of biking when I lived there, although it was because it was my primary mode of …

Rain

Fall is definitely coming. Got a pretty nasty little rain storm yesterday. Tried to get some shots of the multiple lightning strikes, but that stuff is fast.

Around here, when there is lightning, you need to unplug everything in your place otherwise something …

Montbazillac

Montbazillac (mon baz-e-yac) is the big vineyard in these parts, particularly known for its sweet white wine that goes very well with foie gras. Its actually a bit too sweet, unless you are having some foie gras or some other somewhat bitter tasting food. It really is …