Sunday at the Abbey

Royaumont Abbey exterior ruins

A morning at the abbey — the kind of place where you walk and don’t talk much. A concert in the afternoon, fabulous world music by the Saiyuki Trio supplemented by an American drummer and a balafon player from Mali.

Saiyuki Trio performing in the stone abbey at Royaumont
Saiyuki Trio concert, Abbaye de Royaumont
Royaumont Abbey exterior ruins
The abbey ruins at Royaumont

Then home to taste Pablo’s beers; he’s Manou and Thierry’s son who is a brewer at a craft brewery in Bordeaux, and we tasted two.

Ben and Kathy with Pablo's Azimut craft beers
Tasting Pablo’s beers from Bordeaux

Manou made a vegetable tart for dinner. The rest of the evening went to packing, sadly.

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