1000 Super Saturdays

Assisi - 2009 The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi , Umbria region, Italy - mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of the Friars Minor.  Die foto links bo is deur Ruanda geneem.  Die res van die foto's is in die strate van Assisi Ons het eendag Assisi toe gestap, en dit was n langerige stap wat ons heen en weer moes doen.  Ons het by aankoms in n klein kafeetjie koffie gedrink en kaart gespeel, en later sommer op een van die buitemure middagete gehad.  Die foto regs bo dui die poorte na die dorp aan.  Natuurlik is Elize besig om sjerrie te drink teen die koue....Stap is nie vir sissies nie, en die volgende foto wys Dewald letterlik "uitgepass" op die bed. Assisi se winkels in die aand is asemrowend, en dis net liggies waar jy kyk.  Ons het ten duurste iets by een van die koekwinkels gekoop, amper die koste van n hele maaltyd in SA. Italiaanse kos en wyn, pizza, pasta....  Net ons families sal n gym gebruik wanneer ons in Italie i...

Carcasonne Carcassonne, a hilltop town in southern France’s Languedoc area, is famous for its medieval citadel, La Cité, with numerous watchtowers and double-walled fortifications. The first walls were built in Gallo-Roman times, with major additions made in the 13th and 14th centuries. Château Comtal, a 12th-century castle within the Cité, offers archaeological exhibits and a tour of the inner ramparts.  By about 500 BC, Celtic people already had a fort at Carcassonne. When the Romans conquered Gaul about 100 BC, they built a new, stronger fort. Some of that fort is still part of the castle today. In 453 AD, the  Visigoths  conquered Carcassonne, and they also made it stronger.  Carcassonne  is the largest walled city in Europe (among those that have their defensive wall still intact). Its citadel  known as  the Cité de  Carcassonne , is a medieval fortress dating back to the Gallo-Roman period, and was restored by the theorist and architec...

Collioure is a town on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. On the sea, the medieval Château Royal de Collioure offers dramatic coastal views. The bell tower of 17th-century Notre-Dame-des-Anges Church was once a lighthouse. The Modern Art Museum includes paintings by Henri Matisse. Nearby is the Moulin de Collioure, a 14th-century windmill. South, the hilltop Fort St. Elme has a museum with medieval weapons. Dewald was fascinated by the trenches and the castles, and thought we might find some remnant skeletons from the Spanish war. The  Battle of Collioure  (20 – 23 December 1793) saw troops from the  Kingdom of Spain  attack a  Republican French  division during the  War of the Pyrenees . The Spanish troops led by  Gregorio García de la Cuesta  were completely successful in ousting the French under Louis Pierre François Delattre from  Collioure ,  Fort Saint-Elme  and  Port-Vendres . The contending sid...