Visiting Montlouis in the French Pyrenees Mountains with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
After
our busy day in Barcelona, I was happy to sleep in while it rained outside the
next day.
When
I got up, we went to visit a church from the 7th century lost in the
mountains.
The
Black Madonna in the church impressed me.
She sat upright with her child like those in the Uffizi did obtaining
authority from her role as a mother. I
knew the story of Isis, Osiris, and Horus from reading Egyptian mythology as a
child, so I associated this statue with one of protecting families.
We
went to Puigcerda to buy some purchases for our return like Manchego cheese,
paper, and pens.
We
went to a postcard exposition in the town hall in the city of Montlouis. The postcards detailed the history of the
town and its inhabitants. I could have
stayed there all day, but we had to pack to go to Nantes.
My
in-laws and brother-in-law were going back by car. I bought books all over and those weighty
souvenirs would go back by car while Laurent and I would go back by train via
Toulouse and then up the coast during the night.
The
family dropped us off at the train station in Perpignan. Laurent and I bought newspapers and magazines
and read these until the train came in and stayed up reading till we arrived in
Nantes.
My
father-in-law picked us up and went to a bakery and bought buttery croissants
for us.
Our
honeymoon was over. While we ate our
croissants, my father-in-law said, “You have to get a job, Ruth, while Laurent
finishes his MBA now.”
“I’ll
work on my cover letter and resume,” I said as I worked on my second croissant
and smiled about my fun honeymoon.
By
Ruth Paget, Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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