(Caption: Weird automaton of jump-roaping girls in Museum of Automata in Souillac, France.) I had a couple discontinuous weeks of travel in France. I spent one week in a rental cottage in the Ardèche region, which turns out to have perilously unpaved or teensy mountain roads; and another week driving through the Auvergne and northeast Dordogne regions. One day it rained torrentially and I went to a museum instead of visiting cute towns. I love local museums, which have strange diverse exhibits and often feature ethnographic detail you can't find elsewhere. Here are some marionettes with faces carved from nuts, a local crop, in the museum in Brive-la-Gaillarde:
Things I Think Are Awesome #9: Weird Travel
Things I Think Are Awesome #9: Weird Travel
(Caption: Weird automaton of jump-roaping girls in Museum of Automata in Souillac, France.) I had a couple discontinuous weeks of travel in France. I spent one week in a rental cottage in the Ardèche region, which turns out to have perilously unpaved or teensy mountain roads; and another week driving through the Auvergne and northeast Dordogne regions. One day it rained torrentially and I went to a museum instead of visiting cute towns. I love local museums, which have strange diverse exhibits and often feature ethnographic detail you can't find elsewhere. Here are some marionettes with faces carved from nuts, a local crop, in the museum in Brive-la-Gaillarde: