
Coquelicots à St. Clément-des-Baleines

Loix

Le Café du Commerce, Ars en Ré
Un joli endroit pour faire un saut en face du port d’Ars. On y mange d’ailleurs très bien.

The Loix end of Ars from the Ars end of Loix.
I’ve just cycled out to the Ars end of Loix in order to see the Loix end of Ars, so to speak.
Geographically speaking, the Loix end of Ars is also of course the arse end of Ars, and you don’t need tracing paper to prove it, not even Bronco or Izal Medicated tracing paper, each as indispensable as a good crayon to the aspiring geographer.
Loix, Ars & Les Portes

Loix, avec, dans le lointain, de l’autre côté des marais salants, l’église d’Ars en Ré

Les marais salants

Rhétais ou Rétais ? Quelle réforme de l’orthographe ? – Ré à la Hune
A souligner, la formule de St.Augustin:
« Dans les choses nécessaires : l’unité ; dans les choses douteuses : la liberté. En toutes choses : la charité »
Variation humoristique sur la réforme de l’orthographe. D’où vient, le « h » de Rhétais repris par nombre d’enseignes ? Selon certains, ce serait une pédanterie graphique attribuant à la déesse Rhéa la protection de l’île.
— Read on www.realahune.fr/rhetais-retais-avez-dit-reforme-lorthographe/
Réhabilitation du marais Martineau à Loix – Chroniques ordinaires des petits moments de la vie rétaise
Réhabilitation du marais Martineau à Loix
— Read on www.notre-ile-de-re.com/en-plein-air/rehabilitation-du-marais-martineau-a-loix/
Le souvron
Le souvron, outil indispensable à la récolte du viau, c’est à dire de la Fleur de sel des marais salants rhétais.

Fabrication du souvron, outil du saunier – Chroniques ordinaires des petits moments de la vie rétaise
Fabrication du souvron, outil du saunier – Chroniques ordinaires des petits moments de la vie rétaise
— Read on www.notre-ile-de-re.com/actus/fabrication-du-souvron-outil-du-saunier/
Loix

La Couarde Sur Mer

Ars en Ré
The Stuttering Cyclist and the Maid of Ars
I cycled down to Ars
I cy-
I cy-
I cycled down to Ars
One sunny day in May
And when I was in Ars I
Ars I
Ars I
Saw a maiden pass I
Met the Maid of Ars
I took her for a glass, I
Glass I
Glass I
Took her for a glass, I
Took her for a beer
I said I’m fond of Ars I
Ars I
Ars I
Said I’m fond of Ars I
Said I loved her here
She thought I’d said her rear she
Rear she
Rear she
Thought I loved her rear
That sunny day in Ars
I said that it was true too
True too
True too
That I’d be true to you to
You and to your Ars
I’ll take you up the aisle
I’ll I’ll
I’ll I’ll
Take you up the aisle, I’ll
Take you up the Zzz
I’d rocked her off to sleep I’d
Sleep I’d
Sleep I’d
Rocked her off to sleep
Her nose was in her beer
And then popped out her glass eye
Glass eye
Glass eye
Plopped into her glass I
Saw it stare at me
She didn’t look so hot then
Hot then
Not then
So I forgot her bot then
I cycled out of Ars
I’d met the maid of Ars I’d
Ars I’d
Ars I’d
The Glass-Eyed Maid of Ars I’d
Lived to share the tale
For I had met the Maid of
Maid of
Maid of
Ars and she was made of
Arse, but for her eye
So now I tilt my glass I
Glass I
Glass I
Tell tall tales of Ars, aye
Until my glass is dry
Returning from my early morning run (waddle)…

A vase of Hoegaarden at the Insolite

Au Bistrot du Marin

St.Martin de Ré
“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a nun*
Breathless with adoration, the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity…” (Benny Hill**) …
* Not that quiet, I confess…
**In fact Wordsworth, come to think of it…

Chartres, south portal
Chartres in a storm
Le Phare des Baleines
Sunset over Cobbler’s Cove, Barbados, January 2017
Firenze, l’anno scorso
As I set up this site, it occurs to me that a number of posts are going to appear somewhat out of chronological sequence, but as long as they fulfil an evocative function, I’m not too concerned. I think I’ll persevere with it, and I may even catch up with myself. This visit in September 2016, so rich in discovery and rediscovery, led on to some interesting reading, notably of histories of the Medici, starting with Lauro Martines’ “April Blood”, an authentic ripping yarn brought to life by an historian equal to the task.







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