Around my Home and Just around the Riverbend
Fortunately for me, I have three days when my little charge is off at daycare, meaning I can take Burgundy by storm. Well, one of those days is my day to get errands done and you know study French a little and things like that; however, I have decided that on those days I am going to take a bike ride around this area. Afterall, it is truly lovely here and the weather has been great. So, I hopped on my my bike two days in the past two weeks, and I visited some amazing things. This blog is therefore going to be two parts because I saw very different things and had completely different experiences. That is all to say that one never knows what can happen. ABBAYE DE CITEAUX This abbey is a Cistercian Abbey, started by St. Bernard in the 12th century. He built many abbeys around France, and at that time, or at the height of the Cistercian commitment, there were something like more than 2000 different places where Cistercians lived and served. Same as the monks who lived at the Abbaye de Font...