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THE PAST TEN DAYS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE…
... the town's Roman ruins. Chip better. Pizza dinner.
Oct. 20- Chip feeling better; Joni sick of hearing about it. (How much snot can run out of one person in a day, anyway?) Drive to Lot River Valley (5 hours or so) mostly through rain. Arrive in Catus at our gite for the week. What a nice place (see pics). Very nice dinner in town. (& cheap compared to where we had ...
Dordogne - Bastides, chateaux and walnuts
... top of a ridge of the mountain and had stunning views of the valley and the Dordogne River, both ways. The inhabitants of Domme must have felt some sympathy with those early people who believed the earth was flat and warned of sailing off the edge. The mostly flat town precinct of the world of Domme finished with a cliff drop at the edge of the town to the valley far, far below but there was a very solid stone wall to prevent toppling from Domme. It was ...
The Valley of Wines
Saying a farewell to Simon our host at Limoges, we set off down the motorway south heading towards Limoges initially, calling in to the Limoges HD Shop. Bry's work colleague had been in the week before and they had remembered him, small world.
From there we finally took the road along the Dordogne towards Bergerac. Wow, some stunning scenery and gorgeous old towns and medieval ...
Everywhere we look, a bloody castle!
... were standing on the cliff above the Dordogne River, 4 other Chateaux / castles could be seen on the surrounding cliff tops. Had lunch at the garden cafe, roger decided to go with the goose salad which had most of the bits of the goose in it except for the hot gizzards, which is on EVERY menu. After visiting the garden ( a bit too neat and trim for my liking!,) we went down, and up again to the Chateaux Castelnaud, the biggest of those we could see and ...
Prehistoric Cave Paintings
... that they were working with primitive materials and without flashlights. There were efficient too - re-using curves from one animal for another, superimposing their drawings.
There were only 5 of us for the 2:15 tour at Fort de Combarelles. These engravings were incredibly detailed, but without colour as water has washed away the paint over time. The variety of animals seemed greater here: wooly rhino, mammoth, ...
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