In early February 2020 I took a bus from Poitier to Saint-Savin in the evening and came back in the early afternoon on the following day to Poitier. This bus continued all the way to Châteauroux. The time table was found under train (not bus) here.

The bus arrived in Sanit-Savin at 19:30 and dropped me off right in front of the possibly best restaurant in this village that closed at 20:00, so I rushed to my airbnb accommodation and came back before 20:00. I think this is the kind of restaurants that still exist in French countryside that serve great food at moderate price. 

The following morning I explored the Abby Church with the audio guide and the brochure. I examined the famed painted ceiling by lying on the pew, as there was nobody else in the church. 

I noticed that the columns painted with pastel colors were fairly common in this part of France. Only a day before I saw them at the Church of Notre-Dame la Grande and to the lesser extent at the World Heritage Church of Saint-Hilaire, both in Poitier. The Church of Saint Pierre in Chauvigny also has them. 

This WHS is about the Abby Church, but I also explored the monk's quarters and the museum.  I believe this is a Catholic monastery, but I thought the monk's cells (photo) were rather luxurious. They reminded me of something totally opposite, i.e., the still-working monk's quarters at the Soji-ji, one of the two headquarters of the Soto School of Zen-Buddhism in Japan, where monk's 50 cm-wide beds were placed only about 50 cm apart from each other. But of course the Soto school is the most meager of the already meager Zen-Buddhism. Today, the monk's cells at Saint-Savin work better for self-isolation than at the Soji-ji and probably worked better in the mid-14th century in Europe. 

Before the bus back to Poitier I again stopped at the same restaurant for a set lunch that included buffet-style appetizer, main course and desert for half the price of the already moderately-priced dinner the night before. 

Over all I quite enjoyed my short stay at Saint-Savin.