Monday, March 28, 2011

Can you guess what this is....??

.....if you said an escalator for your grocery cart....you are correct.  
 This is in a Mall here that has three floors.  You can take
your grocrey cart to any floor via this escalator.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

A view from the city...

....

....in the year 1911, a committee was formed to save the city.  For one franc, one
could purchase a house for 99 years.  However, you had to restore it.  Slowly the
city come back to life.  It now has over 1100 residents and gets over 400,000
visitors a year. Several movies have been made here, "The Three Musketeers"
staring Michael York in 1973, is one of them.   Perouges was largely inhabited
by craftsmen by the twelfth century. The population was mainly comprised
of linen weavers and farmers. In perhaps the most notable single act in the
 history of Perouges France, Seigneur d’Anthon closed in the population of
the walled settlement to defend against the troops of the Archbishop of Lyon
 in 1167. This is notable and impressive because it was not 70 years
later that Perouges had earned communal freedom (1236).


Another well with a ......

....fair maiden enjoying her day.

This sun clock was on one of the buildings....

...it must have been there before Day Light Savings Time, because
it was not 10 O'clock when we took this picture.

There are several wells...

.....which provide water to the city.

Also off the center square is this tree....

....said to be planted in the year 1792.  It has poles to hold up some of the branches.

The main building is this church.....

.....It is just off the city center square.