{"id":141,"date":"2007-05-12T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/2007\/05\/12\/europe-day-8-2-castle-in-caen\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T05:33:56","slug":"europe-day-8-2-castle-in-caen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/europe-day-8-2-castle-in-caen\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Day 8-2, Castle in Caen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Mont St-Michel hadn’t totally tired us out so after meeting up with Beau and Ester we walked down into Centreville to see the castle.<\/p>\n

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\nThe castle was fun and we took a few pictures of churches in the area.<\/center><\/p>\n

\n\"L'Eglise<\/a>
\"L'Eglise<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n

\nThe last picture of L’Eglise St Jean. If you look closely you can see that the whole thing is leaning. Here is a better picture in case you can’t tell.<\/p>\n

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Why is L’Eglise St Jean sideways?<\/b>:
\nWhen I lived in Caen someone told me that the church was commissioned by the king who wanted a divorce. In exchange for the pope’s permission to divorce the king had to build another church. The king had a lot of contempt for all of that so he had the church built on top of a riverbed. As a result the whole thing sunk to one side and is leaning the direction it is today.<\/p>\n

\nUp until yesterday I’d never heard another story for L’Eglise St Jean. I told it to Beau and he told me I was full of it and that it was leaning over because of WW2 and all the bombs that fell around it. I tried to find a picture of the rubble but I couldn’t. I have a postcard at home in case anyone is curious later. It’s basically rubble and the church.<\/p>\n

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Back to Travels<\/b>:
\nTonight we’re going to take the train back through Paris to Chartres where we’ll visit for a few days to see some of the capital sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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