Following Dr Helen Castor  excellent program “She-Wolves : England’s Early Queens”, (BBC4 March 2012) you might decide to be as daring as Eleanor of Aquitaine and dash off to Antioch, but not cheating : no mobile-home, no car, no satnav, no roads, no road signing, just a horse and a cart (and may be a  few more thousands fellows to join you on their way to Jerusalem!..) .

Alternatively, you could simply come to Poitiers to admire the amazing   sights   which were familiar to her :  The palace of the comtes-ducs d’Aquitaine she had rebuilt  between 1192/1204, (the superb fireplace was added between 1388/1416),  the very rare  St John Baptistry dating back to the 4th century, Notre Dame La Grande,  the Poitiers cathedral etc..

To add  a few  comments  to Helen Castor’s  story, what a tragedy  the French royalty backed by the “loi salique”, established between the IV/VI centuries, made sure that no woman would ever inherit the throne of France..  and since we presently suffer from electoral fever.. it is equally amazing to learn that, according to Regine Pernoud, French women were granted the right of vote during the middle ages but this right was taken away from them, several times, including, and   most astonishingly   during the French Revolution (“Liberté/Egalité/Fraternité!..”) and this, despite Olympe de Gouges (guillotined  in 1793) first “Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne”.
The right of vote for women was finally granted in 1944 but how many more years will it be before and for the first time in the history of France!.,  the top job will finally be granted to a woman!..