The Slow Road
Two Women Wandering the World
We didn't have any champagne during our three days in the Champagne region, but we did see great old buildings (like these leaning half-timber houses in Troyes), stayed with a nice Couchsurfing family, and marveled at stained-glass windows from the 13th century
The very French town hall in the small town of Nogent
Our hosts' daughter, Flora, playing in a fountain in Nogent
And washing a cat sculpture at another fountain
Chris catching a runaway Flora
Initials on an old house
A great old house and garden
A 12th-century fortified tower in the wonderful medieval town of Provins
Much of Provins looks like this
A tower on the walls of Provins
A view from the tower
The tall 16th century houses of Troyes
A carved beam on an old house
We're in the land of gothic churches . . .
. . . with jewel-like windows
. . . and gargoyles galore
A flamboyant gothic rood screen in the church of St. Madeleine
Troyes was famous in the 13th century for its painted stained-glass windows
God (who you don't often see in pictures) creating the heavens
