Domaine du Theron

[ellenkushner]

Just to waste time, I googled "Theron" to see how many pages it would be before the entries stopped being about that actress, Charlize, and whether anything about The Fall of the Kings would turn up. On p. 15 (I skipped ahead) my first non-Charlize hit was Domaine du Theron, a French winery in the Lot valley, near Cahors.

The weird thing is, I've been there. In 2001 we celebrated Delia's birthday by renting a sprawling old farm called Cubertou*, and filling it with all our friends. Of course we explored the local wineries, and when we saw a sign for Domaine du Theron, we tore off in that direction. I think we had just recently finished Kings.

The wine was good. I still have the T-shirt.

* The Cubertou site tells me that the great guitarist John Renbourn (Pentangle et alia) is teaching guitar workshops there this summer with Remy Froissart!

Comments

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

Just for a little more Theron-ness, my partner's name is Theron. :)

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

Back before Ms Theron's popularity, sticking my name in a web search was a handy way of finding other people with the same moniker (I've met about three other Therons in my life). Not so much anymore.

[fawsley.livejournal.com]

Something that amused me when I read 'The Fall of the Kings' is that the (adult) actor who played the fat greedy English schoolboy Billy Bunter was named Gerald Theron Campion - the two of them couldn't really be much more different!