It is a beautiful day today,I’m looking forward to a good ride-out.
As its Thursday is market day in Maelstroit. I wander round the market,then sit and have an expresso & coke,whilst I sit and people watch…hours of entertainment!
Then I head off to visit L’art Dans les Chapelles www.artchapelles.com.
It is about an hour’s ride away-on the way I pass this church & fountains in one of the villages-whose name I forget!
The chapels don’t open until 2pm, so I stop for lunch first at St Nicholas-des –Eaux, at a small place next to the river.
I have a non-alcoholic beer with my lunch-it seems so wrong for Stella to be non-alcoholic!
My Gallette Campagnarde-cheese,mushrooms and garlic butter-yummy!
It seems that after the success of the photo exhibition at La Gacilly,more villages are following suit, although here there are only a couple of photos along the river bank.
The starting point for the tours is at Saint-Nicodeme. I buy a guidebook and decide which of the 4 routes I fancy doing. They are colour coded and I chose the yellow route, which takes in 4 chapels.
The first is chapelle Sain-Jean at Le Sourn.
You would never find this place is you were looking for it without-its up a tiny track which takes you through a farm and then out onto a hilltop where the chapel overlooks the area around.
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The route is well marked with these little sign posts
The next stop is chapelle notre-Dame de Joie at Saint-Thuriau.
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This is one of my favourite of the chapels and one of the few where one of the artworks has been kept,with the interior mural now being shown for its 7th year. The contrast between the blue paintwork of the chapel ceoling and the pink mural is stunning.
Passage by Bernard Cousinier
My next stop is chapelle Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Moustoir-Remungol.
most of the chapelsare manned by students, but this one is an older guy, who starts chatting away to me in french about the exhibition. i explain that I am English and only know a little french, so he slows down!.
I think he said that it the world in minituare, but i’m not sure! I have to admit this was my least favourite!
He also takes the time to explain the statues of the 4 saints at the alter-one of the statues dates back to the 14th century
by Nicolas Chatelain
The final stop is chapelle Saint-Nicodeme at Guenin
The question posed is “Is the construction or destruction?”
by Vincent Mauger
The chapel doorway & water fountain
As the weather is still good I plan my route home to take in one of my favourite roads in the area, heading to Colpol, St Bily, up to Tredion, then across to St Guoymard. This is a great ride,through country roads ,with little if no traffic and lots of winding twisties through woodland – great fun!
The chateau at Tredion
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