Jameses Jolly Jaunt: Toying with Troyes

How opportunity presents itself! While we were having our final breakfast at the hotel in Dizy this morning, we realised that the people at the next table were speaking English- a rare find in a foreign town away from the main areas. We got chatting, to find that they are Welsh and come often to France & Germany as the guy used to be a French/German teacher at a school in Wales. They suggested we might like to visit Troyes (Twaa- pronunciation) and as it was on our way to Dijon, of mustard fame, we decided to call in & have a coffee and a look.

It was amazing. Troyes is a medieval town and the guy had said that some years ago, when the good citizens were renovating the town, they found that underneath the stucco were wonderful examples of medieval architecture and he was absolutely right! We had been going to stop for maybe half an hour but this turned into about 2.5 hours, including lunch which, for moi (get the French bit here) was a pot of at least 4 dozen mussels! Heaven in a pot! Ohhhh les moules! (More French) and classique ( the French just keeps coming!) And the wine... but enough about the food.

We also found a really old church, again thanks to the Welsh couple whom we came across again while we were eating lunch in a little cafe in a tiny street. (This is not about the food!) They mentioned the church which had been started before 500 AD! Such history.

Bell from ancient church

Anyway, we captured the day & the special parts of it in photos as usual, so, you lucky lot, here's a soupcon (yessssssssss more French! I'm really good at this- & mind you, I must have had good teachers 50 years ago because the French is really coming back & if I were here another month or so I'd be giving as good as I get.) The remainder of the countries will be a different matter.

And now for the pictures.