Sept. 18th - Patrimony Weekend in France: The French love their history, and on this weekend, all museums, galleries, expositions, etc. are free to the public. Peter and I visited The Monestary of the Visitation. Now I thought monestaries had 'monks', but this one had Nuns! The Sisters of the Visitation have a closed 'monestary', but open their doors (sort of... only 3 rooms and the chapel) on this patrimony weekend. So Peter and I visited and were amazed! I did not think nuns still wore the black full habits, walked with their eyes to the ground and their hands folded, spoke everso softly, and stayed cloistered the rest of the year in prayer. The one thing they were taught, was to make robes for the priests... embroidered garments with gold threads, tapestry, silk, satin,etc. in glorious colours. Each robe was an 'art piece'. This monestary had 36 nuns, aged from 24 to 102!!! An eye-opener of a trip!!