Singing to Conques

I haven't had good Internet access, so this is the first post for a couple of days.

The weather has been good and the tracks have been mostly smooth, so the walking has been easier.

I have been in sync with the same group of about a dozen people and we have been staying at the same gites for the past 3 days. The gites all describe themselves as Christian and the connections are slightly different. One was a "hospitalier", which means it is owned by the local parish, one was private, and now I am in the Abbey in Conques.

This is a photo of the small private one:

Each night they have some form of sing vespers and most of the pilgrims come along. I'm impressed by the musical knowledge of the group of young men from Brittany. One of them sings in a Gregorian choir, but apparently the others picked up hymns, chants and canons from their local churches.

Andra, a German woman is keen on the acoustics of singing in large churches and this evening she was given the chance to sing in Conques cathedral.

Father Jean Daniel played the organ in Conques cathedral tonight and he told me he knows Pastor de la Sala from Sacred Heart Mosman parish well from his visits here.