Stevenson's extensive travels with his donkey took him around the Auvergne and also into the Ardeche regions in France. For many years we have been travelling right through Le Monastier when we're on holiday............it is fairly close to Le Puy en Velay and Retournac too. The museum in Retournac, which is housed in an old lace factory and has been mentioned on Arachne before, has an ancient motor bike exhibited. This bike was once ridden for the collection of lace made in the local villages, where once the collections were made on foot. One such small mountain village is called Le Beage, where once there was a lace 'outlet'........according to the weathered writing on the front of the house. The house is now a Gites de France holiday home.............I have the photo, somewhere. Sandi, in an ever greyer Rochester, Kent.
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