France Travel Journal. Day 18 (Fri, June 17) - Lunac

Today we traveled to Lunac, but stopped in Rodez (pronounced row-daze) on the way.

The principal thing we wanted to was the menhir museum, though went to the Cathedrale first. The Cathedrale was an impressive, instituional church. As Kate put it, it was a church that knew it's business was serious, and took it seriously.

It was by far the largest church we have visited this trip, and it was more gothic than we'd previously seen in Southern France.

After, we drove to Lunac, a tiny town south of Villefrance de Rouergue (pronounced row-er-gha).  It was too small to even have a restaurant.

The hotel is a Chambre d'Hote, and this is our first experience with one. Our room is chateau, and to reach the room, you go up a circular staircase.

We been in many museum/castles with rooms like this: wooden beamed 15 foot ceiling, fireplace, 2 foot walls.  An amazing way to end our wandering.

BTW, Chambre d'Hote basically means rooms in someone's home.  There were 3 rooms in this Chambre d'Hote, though we are the only guest.  It is a very personal experience: we take petit dejeuner in the family dining room, our room is not made up at night, we are given a key to house when we leave at night and let ourselves in. When we went out for a walk, they offered us a sweater and cloak in case it rained.

A test of our French, which thus has been up to it!