The marvelous week-end
As we was very kind, when our mom
was away, we won a week-end in the Camargue
The Camargue
The marriage of the sky and
water on the Earth.
I need to refresh me by
arrival. The best way is a good bath
This water is not
very good. It stinks so. Better going out and runing to an other
place
at first very far away
throught this lake
and back at a galop like
a horse
In fact, do you know
this race Camargue ?
It already was bred in
the Roman's period
They measure between 135
et 150 cm and are very resistant
The faols are brown until around 3 years.
The "buff-backed herons"
often escorts it, being also perched on its back.
it is never afraid and
goes with the bulls too
eating the insects which
are flying and coming out the ground when they walk
Is it not cute ?
It looks so good, I
don't understand, the reason why I may not play with it.
If I may not, I prefer go to
the rice fields
The Camargue is
wunderful with the water and all the animals
It was the greatest
surprise of the day : on the carpark of mas Pioch Badet
Storks with their little
ones. GREAT
But it is enough now, I
am the star of this story (ok, with my mother)
Do you come with us to Eygalières ?
The chapell Saint Sixte
of the XII th century seems a watercolor painting
It is very hot, we
prefer to rest in the shadow of the porch
We do'nt spend a long
time there because we have to go to Glanum, where I may not
enter.
I can say to you that
Glanum is a hellén-Roman-celtic-Ligurian place
whose apogee goes from the II nd century before J-C to the III rd century
after J-C.
The mausoleum goes back
to 30 before J-C, the triumphal arch to 20 before J-C
To read more about
Glanum, follow this links
Glanum
We go on to
Aigues-Mortes.
It was one day a haven
on the Mediterranean
It is from there that the 7th Crusade left on the 25.08.1248 with
Saint Louis (Louis IX king of France)
After having be prying in the Church of Notre Dame des Sablons,the oldest
building of the town, to obtain the grace of God, the king shiped off on
his nave "Montjoie"
Ramparts of the XIII th
century
the door of the Queen
The tower of Constance
XIII th century
The haven
The culture is quite
interesting but I would like to be free
Let us go to les Saintes Maries de la Mer
by the Road of Cacharel.
House of "gardian" and
in the background the "bell-tower wall" of the church of les Saintes
Maries
Who is the "gardian"? The cowboy of the
Camargue. He spends the days on his horse The house is low and
squat to resist the wind
Cross of the
Camargue
symbolizing the faith (three-pronged fork of Gardian) the hope (anchors
of fisherman)
and charity (the Heart of the Holy Mary)
Who were the 3 Holy Mary? Mary-Kleophos
and Mary-Salome and Maria-Magdalena who, accompanied by Sarah,
converted the Gipsies
Sorry, I have to go
What did they put on the
way?
It is well built?
I try...
mom does not like
Funny ! again more and
more quickly
I could forget, that I
want to bathe
Are you coming mom ? No
?
no matter
how is it with a run on
the strand
I win, don't you mean so
?
I can play and dance
alone, if you prefer
I am tired
While I rest, look at my
friend the "aigrette garzette"
