Arcadia Discussion Zone

I know I say it each time and generally disappoint you all but I'm off to the Aude on Saturday and have a couple of things to do like get a shot through that Trefoil and triangle shaped chimney on the Tour for Louv. I'll also visit the Templar church in Campagne-sur-Aude. Anyone got anything else they want me to have a look at? Haven't been able to get excited this year as we are in the middle of moving out of London and I booked this before we even had thought about moving and now it's a bit in the way. We would probably be completing in the next week or so otherwise. The only reason I didn't cancel was because I offered to fly my sister in law and her partner out there to stay with us the second week for her 40th birthday.
We planning to take her to Sal Salvayre/Alet, Gorge du Galamus/Hermitage and Montsegur and up to RLC of course on their first Sunday and hopefully HL will be there

This'll make Roscoe smile (I hope)
After a few vinos last week and when I got fed up with boxing crap up I started drawing lines on Google Earth (as you do) and linked up Glastonbury, RLC (coz those 2 places always seem very similar to me) the Templar church at Osterlars on Bornholm and the Great Pyramid at Giza...it makes a nice pattern actually.
Here's a screen shot
and that yellow pin on the line from Glasto-Osterlars is my is my new house...weird eh

bon voyage Mr. Davinho. And happy return.

danke

I freakin can't wait

Have a wonderful time and what a great birthday present
fo your sister in law

what a coincidence on the new house

Love the map
Take care both of you and enjoy

made me laugh anyway

Please visit Lincoln's 'point x' and tell me if there have been any recent excavations. And, if you feel up to it, overlay Poussin's pentagram on a map of the pentagram of mountains and go to where the shepherds point. Once there, start digging.

Forget about Sauniere's silly church.

Say hi to Ben for me if you see him.

You may well visit that very church but ... although the Knight Templars had a sentry in CsA the church itself was not built by them. It stems from the 10th century.

Remind me to teach you to draw sometime.

You want drawing?

EAT THIS.



Roslin - Roseline? straight through Silbury hill to Lourdes (as in Our Lady of Lourdes) Lourdes is on the Greenwich meridian.


Glastonbury and the Roslin - St Salveur line.

Or This



400/247 = 1.618 or THE GOLDEN SECTION

PAX 681 is - 681 681
A Rood is an Anglo-Saxon word for a Cross, it is also the measurement equivalent to the imperial measurement called a Pole.
So if you take a square (dotted) 681 Rood by 681 Rood and draw a circle around it so that the circumference touches each corner.



The diameter of this circle is Three Statute Miles
or One League.
(with a 0.6% error)

681 poles = 3745.5yards
3745.5 squared + 3745.5 squared = 28057540.5
Take the square root
5296.9 16.9 yards over exactly three statute miles.
Divide by 3
= 1765.6 yards or 5.6 yards over one statute mile. Or 1 pole over 1 mile

The radius of this circle will be half a league or one Domesday League. There are 2640 yards in one Domesday league and 2640 squared = 6969600 yards and if we divide this by the number of yards in a mile (1760) we get 3960 statute miles. The mean radius of the earth is 3959 miles; 3964 miles at the equator and 3949 miles at the poles. One must remember that the Abbé Jean Picard had measured the length of a degree of longitude and computed the size of the earth in 1655, the year Poussin painted his first version of the Annuciation.

Of course 2640 is quite a unique number; for instance one and a half times 2640 is 3960.

Half of 396 is 198; the number of inches in a pole.

198 times PHI Φ (the golden ratio; 1.618) is 320 (to the nearest integer): which is the number of poles in a mile.

Have a nice trip.

I really enjoyed your you-tubes and pics of your last trip.
If you happen to be near that place with the strange pool that no longer exists, could you get some shots of the copse of trees that surrounded it. If I remember correctly, there is a farm there now and you probably can't get near it. But if you get to feeling "adventuresome" it would make for some great pics.
And is it possible at RLC to lay on the ground underneath the.......the thing that looks like an arrow pointing down that is attached to the castle thingy........goodness I can't find the correct words this morning......what's it called....the "?" Anyway, laying on the ground and taking a picture straight up looking at the arrow thingy into the sky?????
Will you be near where the three roads/tracks meet? A nice shot of part of the Stone Circle of RLB would be nice. .........never mind me Davinho.........rambling early morning talk and not enough coffee just yet. Hope you guys have a fabulously adventurous time!!!!!! Can't wait to see your pictures.

did you manage to get your house on it tho?

remind me where that is again?
am going to see if I can find the cave at Roc du Quiloutie and also scouting out l'Homme Mort/Coome Sourde/Valdieu l'Ermitage & Pech de la Roque near the Sougraigne turn off as that place has always intrigued me

Same area. Read all about it in 'The Holy Place'.

Don't tell me you were going to RLC without bringing 'The Holy Place' !?!?

well I've read it a couple of times. If only HL would release on Kindle, RyanAir dictate what books I get to take I'm afraid

Well what are you planning on doing, traipsing around enjoying the view? Drinking cheap wine, getting the usual Limey sun-burn? Oh yeah, let's pointlessly wander around RLC again and give the locals a good laugh.

Get a good map, sit down with the only RLC book that matters, and try to figure out where 'point x' is. And then figure out where the shepherds point. Then you will have done something useful. Maybe you'll have something interesting to report back.

The real fake-cave ?

The keys to the church should be available in the cafe round the corner (very good grand cafe btw) - well they were in 2002 ! If you've time could you inquire about the whereabouts of the rather interesting Templar museum in Campagne ?

Considering it's France the wine is cheap compared to what we pay in Blighty..especially Scotland - thank you Nicola Sturgeon (not) ! And why not enjoy the view ? In fact drink the glorious southern panorama in ...only a philistine would object. Limey sun-burn ? Piss off.

mnm it's called a holiday, try it.

Usually works for me.

Davinho - I haven't done this walk, but if you're staying in Sougraine for part of the time, there's a track that goes south to Bugarach (village), that looks like it would be good to walk along, with high points and probably very good views of the mountain, and up the valley. I meant to do it last time from the Bugarach side, but it was the day of my impromtu HL meeting, and I never got to do it. But from Sougraine would be ideal, and looking at the IGN map, when you get to Bugarach there's a track that curls back up to the RLB-Sougraine road, via Viallesse and its boat shaped castle earthworks, so you could do the whole thing from your digs by foot, as a round trip, nice easy day trek, interesting stops, picnic, etc. You'd be walking up the valley with great views across to the Chateau d'Albedun (Bezu) escarpment. Anyway, thought I'd throw that in the hat, if you happen to be a loose end one day.

Would be interested to hear anything about the new cafe that was getting built at the entrance to the village.

Have a fun trip. Hope the weather's an improvement on what's presently outside the window here in the UK.

hope to walk the Cascades du Mathieu at Bugarach and go for a meal at Ferme de Janou

For Richard - "Chez Emma" new restaurant open now. I've also seen a menu posted somewhere.

http://lebibliothecaire.blogspot.fr/201 ... ation.html

Also the old Pomme Bleue/Amarante is re-opening as Le Dragonm de Rhedae -

http://lebibliothecaire.blogspot.fr/201 ... hedae.html

Thanks. There's another blog on it here, about half way down the link. The Formule Midi (starter + main course + pudding) is a very reasonable 13.90 Euros. And a Terrasse Panoramique, which it would have, being on the edge there.

http://lebibliothecaire.blogspot.co.uk/



The link includes these sample dishes ... but ...



... that must be a joke, right? Cod from the Salz?!? Anchovies from Couluers?!? Breaded bear cubs feet?!? Surely not.

Lovely spot, though.

Have a great time Dave,
One of these years I'll be there at the same time ( got to wait till end of July for my holiday ).
Regards
Nic

IT?

What's IT?

The ground? Where my feet are?

no, the line on your map