Cherie's Place

4 Canon’s Lane is a beautifully restored eight bedroom house situated in the historic precincts of Chichester Cathedral.
All bedrooms are en-suite and offer stunning views of the Cathedral or gardens. It has 4 large double / twin rooms, 3 standard double rooms and a ground floor single room with wheelchair accessible facilities.
Breakfast is available in [...]

There has been a church on this site for a thousand years, standing in the very centre of the ancient walled city of Oxford.
In the early thirteenth century the University began to develop as scholars and teachers, with their classes of scholars, moved into small halls of residence here. They needed a central meeting place and [...]

The recent Google Doodle celebrating the 200th anniversary of the architect who renovated the walled city of Carcassonne brought back happy memories of my visit there in 2012.
From the Telegraph regarding the man and his anniversary:

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, the architect known for his distinctive restoration work on medieval buildings, has been celebrated with a Google doodle.
The [...]

Synopsis (from book cover):
Summer, 1942.  A spirited and courageous young woman, Sandrine, finds herself drawn into the world of the Resistance in Carcassonne under German Occupation.  Her network –  codenamed ‘Citadel’ – is made up of ordinary women who risk everything to fight the sinister battles raging in the shadows around them.  as the war reaches its [...]

One of the books I am currently reading is ‘The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars‘ by Stephen O’Shea.  At the beginning of the chapter on Carcassonne there is a perfect description of what I saw and how I felt when I caught my first fleeting glimpse of Carcassonne as I traveled from Toulouse [...]

Before the homeward journey…