We are here: Chapelle de la Brossardière, which is just outside Taillebourg, Poitou-Charentes. It’s a beautiful old house owned by friends of Richard’s parents. It’s deep in the French countryside and when I look out our bedroom’s window, I can see cows wandering around the paddock next door.
Today we visited Rochefort, a port town that in 1665 selected to be a navy base. They built ships in Rochefort and have returned to this tradition, building l’Hermione. Building started in 1997 and they’re still going! But it’s nearly finished and in 2015, they’ll sail to Boston, which is what the original l’Hermione is famous for.
On the way back, we stopped in a tiny dot of a town (I don’t know what it was called) with an amazing 10th century church. It also had a medieval outdoor laundry where the townspeople would go to wash their clothes.
