While we toured the monastery, we peeked in at the kitchen which is pictured below. We heard the story of the 1000 egg omelette, which was prepared in 1553, by the Carthusian monks for the emperor, who was Charles V. There are bright yellow painted tiles all around the kitchen, (which you can see in my picture) that seemed like they could not have been the original color. Our guide said that they were painted that bright yellow, many centuries ago because it was thought to attract flies, and the flies would all go to the wall and not on the food! There is a big celebration very year on grandma and grandpa Minson's anniversary, August 10th, to celebrate this 1000 egg omelette.
The buildings and grounds cover 2,250,000 square feet. This monastery is sometimes called a charter house. And it is not a huge tourist place because it is so far up in the mountains and way away from everything else. It was a delight for us to go visit it.
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