A strange way to start off with my posts this time, but I thought you might like to see a carved door decoration from La Rochelle. The old doors sometimes have the most interesting features.

I have a lot of things to post later, and will try to put something on this blog every two weeks from now on. Sometimes it may be very small, but I hope to make it interesting and worthwhile.

This time we're dealing with a walled town and oysters. (???)