{"id":1236,"date":"2015-10-30T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2015-10-30T07:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:51:02","slug":"cave-paintings-and-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/2015\/10\/30\/cave-paintings-and-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave paintings and pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was our last full day in Beynac and we got up early to &#8220;queue up&#8221; at Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. You&#8217;ve probably heard of Lascaux, site of the world&#8217;s most famous cave paintings? Well, the original Lascaux was closed in 1963 because the art work was deteriorating. A replica (Lascaux II) is now available for viewing. But we decided to try to see the last of these 15,000 year old multi-colored cave paintings sites open to the public, Grotte Font-de-Gaume. They only allow 54 visitors per day in small guided tour groups. We arrived at 8:30 and, after standing for an hour in heavy rain, snagged an 11:15 English tour. It wasn&#8217;t as miserable as it sounds &#8211; the couple in line behind us was extremely entertaining (thank you Sue and George from Sydney!). <\/p>\n<p>And the tour was fantastic! No photos were allowed (there were sooo many rules; we were surprised we didn&#8217;t have to take turns breathing). Here&#8217;s a shot from a postcard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461006273721.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1446100627372\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461006273721.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry that it&#8217;s sideways &#8211; it&#8217;s a bison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We traveled the backroads again that afternoon, saw more beautiful villages including Rocamadour, sorta (very?!) touristy but still interesting. It has been a pilgrimage site for over a millennium. Bunny really liked the <em>Chemin de la Croix<\/em>, the Stations of the Cross (brought back pleasant memories of Catholic grade school \u263a&#x1f607;\u263a).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1954px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461014245121.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1446101424512\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461014245121.jpeg\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stations of the cross area<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461014623281.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1446101462328\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461014623281.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461014970691.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1446101497069\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461014970691.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461015356651.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1446101535665\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-wp-14461015356651.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was our last full day in Beynac and we got up early to &#8220;queue up&#8221; at Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. You&#8217;ve probably heard of Lascaux, site of the world&#8217;s most famous cave paintings? Well, the original Lascaux was closed in 1963 because the art work was deteriorating. A replica (Lascaux II) is now available for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}