Probably our last post for this trip. Drove from Lyon to Paris with a stop in Vezelay in between. Vezelay is an amazingly beautiful Cistercian abbey. It's very simple inside, devoid of any real ornamentation other than the striped stones used in the barrel arches in the ceiling. It sprinkled on us a little while there, but really it was quite pleasant. The cloud cover made for uniform light that created a surreal atmosphere in the woodlands surrounding the abbey. We'd actually been to Vezelay some time ago but it just didn't look familiar on the drive there. We'd thought the abbey was in more of a flat environment and perched on a hill and that we'd approached it from more an autoroute. This time we approached from another side, through some beautiful villages set in the rolling hills surrounding the abbey and it wasn't until we practically got to the front door of the abbey that we really recognized it.
Tomorrow we'll go to Disneyland again. Sophie's been counting down the days. So have I. We're just hoping the rains hold off. Just saw on the news that it's been the coldest Spring in 50 years in the UK. Doesn't surprise me when we think that we've had two days of full sun on this trip and two days of full, hard, relentless rain, and every other day has been off and on rain. Essentially there's been a low pressure system just parked over France since we got here. Sucks. So, again, hoping for better weather tomorrow. We'll see.
