Europe September — December 1989
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Auvergne is an administrative region in central France, comprising the four departments of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal and Haute-Loire.
Puy de Dome. There are scientific excavations through the core of the volcanic plug.
Volcanoes to the north.
Clermont Ferrand. Note the cathedral made from black volcanic rock.
Basilica Notre-Dame d'Orcival. Romanesque architecture.
La Roche Sanadoire
La Roche Tuilière
Both plugs within glacial valley.
Lac Pavin. A meromictic crater lake
Saint Ilpize
Château de Saint-Ilpize
Chapelle Sainte-Marie-des-Chazes
La Roche Servière, Allier River
Le Puy en Valley
Notre-Dame de France
Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe
Basilique Saint-Joseph
Château de Polignac
Arrière grand père
Saint-Victor-Malescours, Haute-Loire with descendants from France and Australia — Joseph, Alain and Shirley
Church at St Victor. (Possibly St Pancras) Shirley's great-grandfather was an altar boy here.
Baptismal font where great-grandfather would have been baptized.
Local boulongerie (with a little imagination). Great-grandfather was born here 45.291556, 4.311876.
Alain, Joseph, Suzanne and Shirley
The documents are Shirley's great-grandfather's letters written initially to his parents, then to his brother.
Clermont Ferrand. Children are Lionel, Julian and Elodie.
Shirley, Helene and Alain
Rose sable. Wind erosion from Sahara.
Marseille from Railway Station.