T Stands For.....

 Hi everyone, we're back too grey days again so I am happy to be able to take you back to the sunny days we had in September

It may not look it here as the clouds were rising in the direction we were headed!But first.....

We stopped off in this charming village

On some of the walls were photographs of previous residents

By this time were all ready for something to eat - a short drive to this quirky place in Lhomaizé (they had a huge Ronald McDonald figure at the other side of this bar!)"Les Bienvenus', basic food and good value for money

No other photos but there are drink adverts around including one for one of my favourites - Orangina - enough to give me entry to T Stands for Tuesday at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog The Altered Book Lover I hope?

From here we headed to our destination - somewhere that our friends knew we would find interesting!

Civaux not only has a reptile zoo and a nuclear power station. it also has an ancient burial ground...

There are links here and here 

Other boards explain that the death toll from the Battle of Vouillé was expected to be higher but not all of the sarcophagi were required.....

...but this is the legend!

It is quite close to the power station

The entire surrounding wall of the cemetery is made of Sarcophagi lids.

Our friends live near Vouillé, some 30 miles away - how they got bodies here was not explained.

There are recent graves too.

There is also a ruined chapel

We could see some very faded crosses on some of the lids

From here we walked back to the car - parked by the church - we had look inside

It has some amazing Mediaeval artwork and carvings

Most have been renovated but there are still signs of some of the original art.

Next week will be something totally different, for now, thanks for looking, Chris