There are so many spires, tall narrow structures and clocktowers in La Rochelle that I’m perpetually looking upward. Firstly, there are well-known clocks, such as the Grand Horlage at a major opening archway, the clock at Gare SNCF (Railway station), the clock tower at the Town Hall and the clock tower at the end of Eglise Notre Dame’s rambling buildings. Also, there is the magnificent ancient Belltower of Eglise St Saveur. There is a ‘lighthouse’ rising, not from a rocky…
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https://youtu.be/-vIavzWvO8o 23 Mar 2019 La Rochelle Photos Shelley Beer, Video Jill de Vos 23 Mar 19
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Sunday is not the busiest day at the market so it was an ideal day to do a quick video. Suffice to say it is another learning curve to film and edit these things. It’s a bit tricky to be unobtrusive but when I mention they will be famous in Australia, they smile! We shop regularly at this market, it has a marvelous selection of fresh fruit, vegetables, cheeses, meat and fish, pre-prepared meals, wines and cognacs and of course…
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Requiem de Mozart in La Rochelle- Eglise Notre Dame de La Rochelle The ticket We arrived half an hour early under threat of our discounted seats being given to someone else. This gave us time to really explore the space from our smallish chairs, bound together at intervals of four chairs by long pieces of timber. I could see many people before me had worn the rear stretcher of the chair in front by placing their feet up onto the…
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It was a bit of a windy and miserable day so we rugged up and went down to the Yelo Electro Seabus that goes from the old port to the marina at Les Minimes. It was a 20-minute trip and we could use our monthly ticket, otherwise, it is 2 Euros return. We alighted at the marina and felt the icy cold wind so promptly got back on for the return trip. We had a chance to film a few…
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Port de Minimes name is derived from the establishment of a convent of the Frères Minimes in this area during the 1550s. The Hermits of the Order of the Minimes was founded by St Frances of Paola in Italy in 1493. They were an order that not only adhered to the vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience but also the perpetual abstinence of meat, eggs and dairy products. The name minimes is from the Italian minimo meaning smallest or least….
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