Tag: Monastery

If I visit a monastery, I try to remember to tag it as such. This is true whether it currently functions as a monastery or it’s been repurposed as something else. For example, a tourist attraction. Those are my rules. If you want your own rules, start your own travel journal, dammit.

Most often, when I visit, monks and/or nuns no longer inhabit the building, making it a former, not current abbey. I think that’s because monks and nuns can be somewhat standoffish at times and don’t want the heathens such as me wandering about while they try to attend to silent devotion or whatever it is they do. So, they don’t allow tourists in until they no longer control the place. And then probably only because they have no choice seeing as though they no longer control the building. But that’s only my theory. I’m wrong about a great many things. Possibly including this.