We drove through the empty countryside south of Barjac through the lush fields and green landscapes of the northern Pays du Gard, stopping only to investigate the small fortified village of Lusson, with its churches and late medieval castle:-
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Pays du Gard
We left the valley of the Rhône at Pont St. Esprit and climbed into the hills and vineyards of the Pays du Gard just south of the Ardèche until arriving near Barjac:-
Lincoln’s Inn
I had dinner last night in the Lincoln’s Inn Great Hall with the upper echelons of the legal profession in white tie and decorations. I have sometimes walked through Lincoln’s Inn with its mowed lawns and atmosphere of academic seclusion, but had never penetrated the Great Hall, which makes Oxbridge dining halls look small-scale and has a huge and not wholly successful fresco by G.F. Watts depicting A Hemicycle of Lawgivers, including Moses, Confucius and King Alfred, as well as Tennyson impersonating Minos.
This morning I went to check out the architecture of the Stone Buildings with their grand neoclassical façade, designed by Sir Robert Taylor:-
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