Today, thanks to Miranda (our Terra Foundation host), we all piled into a van and drove to a neighboring town; so that we could climb a tower in an old castle of course. The Château de La Roche-Guyon was, in medieval times, a hidden castle built into the side of a hill. Much later a manor house was added in front of the crumbling castle's tunnels and tower. Then even later, during WWII, the tunnels held the headquarters for an important German soldier, Erwin Rommel, who was believed to be involved in the conspiracy to kill Hitler.
We wandered through the dark tunnels behind the manor and then through it, out and up a winding staircase. We reached the top, the top of the ruins of what once was an even taller watchtower. The view stretched out before us; geometric patterns of gardens, green hills of trees, and towns we had passed on our way, all fading into blue. It felt painted. And it felt unreal to all of us that we were sitting up on the edge of a stony tower, the edge of the world; reflecting on our little time in our little town that had almost past.
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