Bees and Pins

Au'jour'd hui nous allons au St Centerei de Gerei , c'est un tres jolie petit ville. The town is a thousand years old. It was founded when two brothers went on a pilgrimage. There were two miracles, the first miracle was that a source of water appeared to the dehydrated travellers, yet they were still on the wrong side of the river so the second miracle took place. In true red sea fashion the river parted so that the brothers could cross.

 This 'dog kennel' - it looks like a dog house if you ask me- anyway it marks the spot of where the source of water appeared.

The village was filled with such stories and traditions . For example in the chapel there was a statue filled with pins.

On closer inspection we found out that young girls would stick pins in the dress of the statue and if the pins remained in the dress for a year, they (the girls not the pins) would surely get married.
This resulted in the parentals looking for a pin, any pin, for me to stick in said statue- oh thanks guys, they have so much faith in me.

Bees were the wardens of the ville. In 898, apparently according to the plaque on the wall of the church, Charles III set soldiers on the town. They caused quite a kerfuffle and were attacked and forced to retreat by an angry swarm of bees. Well wow, I couldn't even make something like that up.

The 18th June is the anniversary of the Call of the Gaules for the parachute regiment. It just so happened that the regiment were having a reunion dinner in the ville and we were invited.There was lamb and pork on the spit and wine coming out of their ears but malahearusement they were all french and I don't think I could have stomached a full on conversation in french for hours on end so we swiftly fled the scene with a 5 hour drive to look forward to - yay!!