Chartreuse Monastery

We got a late start and then headed to the Chartreuse Monastery. I was very pleasantly surprised by the pep in the Skoda 105 hp diesel motor (never thought I would write anything like that!) and after taking in the beauty of the roads leading up to the col de Porte and down through St. Pierre en Chartreuse, we parked at the Monastery lot. In retrospect, bringing Zoe to a place where you are asked to respect the monks' vows of silence was perhaps a little ill advised, but she was actually very well behaved.









We drove back through St. Laurent du Pont to Francks place, where we had another great meal with wine to match. I talked to Franck a little about the Hackintosh phenomenon and am thinking about trying to set one up myself at some point.