{"id":33233,"date":"2023-07-07T04:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=33233"},"modified":"2023-07-07T04:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:44:35","slug":"lavaudieu-france-%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=33233","title":{"rendered":"Lavaudieu, France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 6th July 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 80 kms from Le Puy-en-Velay to Brioude \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited:\u00a0Polignac and Lavaudieu \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Briorde Aire CC, free, N45.29500, E03.38750\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 45 days @ \u20ac90 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We spend last evening chatting about life and travels with Vivienne and Mark from blighty. Suddenly we notice it was 9 pm and no one had mentioned dinner so we said our goodbyes and made do with what was easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting out of the aire in the morning was just as complex as getting in a couple of days ago. We set the GPS for an aire in Polignac which was only 6 kms from Le Puy. Our Le Puy pass paid for a couple of days ago includes a visit to the Fortress Polignac, so why not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking across the village square to the Eglise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another view toward the Marie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The fortress is still a steep climb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Gehenna Tower, the lower section a prison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Polignac Family Crypt (now empty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Puits de I\u2019oracle an 83 metre deep well with a 7m2 cistern at the bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking across at the original Romanesque palace (now a ruin) and the keep.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s a 141 step long spiral staircase to the roof of the keep. The roof top is scaffolded which is very re-assuring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s a long walk up from the carpark to the village, an even longer walk up to fortress, then the spiral staircase. But the views across the valley make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Polignac village and are fortress done. Back in the Hymer we set the GPS for Lavandieu. Less than an hour later with a coffee stop on the way, we arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From our guide book the Most Beautiful Villages in France you\u2019ll find Lavandieu on page 110. Lanvandieu stands on the River Senouire, in the Central Massif area of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The village is a post card but very small. The Benedictine Monks built an abbey here in 1057. The monks left it and a group of nuns continued in the abbey until the French Revolution (1790\u2019s) when such places fell from favour. The \u00c9glise of Saint-Andr\u00e9 is all that remains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walking up another hill this time to Lavandieu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Outside the \u00c9glise, ignoring the cars, the clock tower come steeple is not like we\u2019ve seen before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Nave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of interesting murals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back in the village square 20 minutes later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We\u2019ve explored Lavandieu as best we can without spending \u20ac6 pp to look at the abbey\u2019s cloisters. Wandering back to the Hymer we R+R for an hour before deciding to continue on to a free aire in Brioude, about 15 minutes further north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 6th July 2023 Travelled: 80 kms from Le Puy-en-Velay to Brioude \u00a0 Visited:\u00a0Polignac and Lavaudieu \u00a0 Stayed: Briorde Aire CC, free, N45.29500, E03.38750\u00a0\u00a0 Budget: 45 days @ \u20ac90 per day We spend last evening chatting about life and travels with Vivienne and Mark from blighty. Suddenly we notice it was 9 pm and no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[88,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-33233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-castles","9":"tag-french-villages","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33233"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33266,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233\/revisions\/33266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}