My husband and I spent a month in France in September 2007. That was incidentally when France hosted the Rugby World Cup.

I had never really watched rugby before, but we were in Paris the night of the opening game between France and Argentina. I watched the ending of the game on television and had the same visceral response to Chabal that every other red blooded woman had.

Wow.

Is he powerful. He is the personification of a Frankish warrior-tribal chieftain. Forget “the Caveman” he’s a Frank.

On another note, if you two are game for checking out unusual points of interest during your travels in France, you might find my blog of interest.

Just click on the label cloud for France and you’ll see many different posts with a plethora of pix.

My favorite day was spent hunting down sacred sites associated with an obscure saint (Saint Namphaise) in the Quercy region. We went to three different places including one abbey in ruins that if legend is correct, dates back to the eighth century and the time of Charlemagne. We had it all to ourselves.

Here’s a link to a few of those posts. You’ll have to scroll to the bottom post first to read it in reverse order of posting.

http://lcmccabe.blogspot.com/search/label/Quercy

Have a fabulous time in France!