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Description of PLF's sojourn in various monasteries where he spent time as a guest so he could enjoy the privacy and silence to write.
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Writer Patrick Leigh Fermor visits, and occasionally stays at, several monasteries—the French Abbey of St Wandrille de Fontanelle, the Priory of St Peter of Solesmes, La Grande Trappe, the Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia—and puts down his thoughts on their architecture, their history, and, most importantly, their meaning.