Let's get back to the Alignements de Carnac. Last time we were there it was still foggy, but eventually the fog burnt off and the sky slowly turned blue. With that the atmosphere of this place changed as well.
We walked along the seemingly endless paths.
The standing stones were impressive.
Do you see a face in this one?
One really wonders how the people were able to move these giants and then put them all in a row without our modern day tools.
The Geek and I were too slow for Kaefer, so she proceeded on her own (I suspect she wanted some time away from her annoying parents) and someone was kind to take our picture (this is for Nicole's Friday Face Off). We got rid of our jackets after the sun had come out.
The rocks were all different and had a lot of character I think. Please note the amount of lichen on many of them.
It was going on forever! Menhirs, menhirs, menhirs.
Obelix would have such a blast!
Who the heck is Obelix, you might wonder. Well, I'm glad you asked.
Our heroes Asterix and Obelix are the creations of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, a French comic album series that almost every child (and adult) in Germany and pretty much all of Western Europe knows. In 50 BC all of Gaul is occupied by the Romans except for one tiny village (which looks like it is located in Bretagne) whose inhabitants fiercely resist the Roman legionaries. With the help of a magic potion brewed by their druid (called Miraculix in the German translation) which gives them temporary superhuman strength they can fight the Romans. Obelix, however, is not allowed to drink it since he fell into the pot of the potion as a child and has lifetime superstrenght. In the comic books you usually see him casually carrying large menhirs on his back or dead boars under his arm, the favorite food for their lavish victory parties. Their adventures lead them throughout the antique world. These comic books are some of the very rare ones that are used in German schools for instruction in French, Latin and Old Greek. In my school it was used in Latin in the 9th or 10th grade (I started to learn Latin in 8th grade).
No wonder that here where menhirs are available in abundance, you would find Asterix and Obelix souvenirs in the shops.
As I mentioned in my first post about the Alignements, there were also tumuli (individual tombs) and dolmens (collective tombs).
Slowly, the sun ws sinking toward the west...
... and painting warm colors onto the menhirs.
When the sun finally started to disappear, the true magic began.
I leave you with a few sunset pictures and hope that you will enjoy them.
