I suddenly realized I was in this absurd situation: I am an amateur baker, I hadn't been in a church in years, I barely speak French, and found myself going over to try to restore the lost 1300-year-old tradition of baking at the abbey."
VOA: standard.2010.07.16
We ate them in the shade of a tall chestnut in the town square and drank cold draft beers, then pedaled on to Souillac and the oldabbey there, built by returned Crusaders in the style of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which they had seen on their way to Jerusalem.