Monday 17 December 2007

Combe Sydenham, Somerset

This is where Elizabeth Sydenham lived,who married the widowed Sir Francis Drake in 1585.

Culbone,Somerset, England

The Church here is only 35 feet only, is believed to be England's smallest parish church.

Thursday 6 December 2007

Fowey, Cornwall, England

Kenneth Grahame who wrote The Wind in the Willows was married here in 1899.

Bolventor, Cornwall, England

Here is the Jamaica Inn, which gave its name to one of Daphne du maurier novels about smuggling.

Tuesday 4 December 2007

Vezelay,Yonne, France

St Bernard here on 31 March 1146 called for a Second Crusade.
King Richard the Lionheart met the french king here in 1190 before he departed for the Third Crusade.
The abbeyhas relics of Mary Magdalene.
Saint Francis of Assisi founded a monastery here about 1217

Roche de Solutre, Saone-et-Loire, France

This place has given its name to a type of prehistoric flint tools;Solutrean

There is also a museum of prehistory, explaining about the prehistoric site.