Fête de la Transhumance
THIS PAST SUNDAY, Martine and I joined about forty of our neighbors on a trip to the tiny village of Aubrac which is located at high altitude on France’s Massif Central for a celebration which has been carried out there annually since the middle ages called; Fête de la Transhumance.
Boarding a chartered bus in our little hamlet we really did not know what to expect… What we did know was that the Transhumance is the shepherd’s movement of cattle to the higher pastures for summer grazing.
Much to our surprise the village of Aubrac, which today is home to forty-five year-round residents and this past week-end, was host to about 25,000 people who all converged there to celebrate this two day event.
Who knew the livestock would be so overwhelmingly outnumbered? I guess it was kind of a
Woodstock for cows, bulls and shepherd’s alike.
à bientôt, Jack
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