Bong! The Cowgirl Sleuther’s Monk Research Trip

Dear readers, I have recently returned from a monk research trip in the South of France. There I visited troglodyte monastic caves a medieval herb garden and a medieval castle. What glee I had in my tour of such places. It really put me in touch with Cadfael’s spirit. I even visited the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, where Pope Urbain V dispatched crusades. Those who like accuracy when it comes to dates will pull me up short here and say that these crusades where long after the ones Cadfael was on, but what’s a crusade between friends?

Here's the Cowgirl sleuther posing as a lowly prior with my Abbot Babe Bitchford