Gite de France Claude et Liliane MAURICE
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De la biere en France!
Ce matin nous avons recupere la voiture qui nous transportera jusqu'a Nantes dans 6 jours. Une rutilante chevrolet Spark grise. La grosse amelioration versus notre modele de l'an passe, elle a 4 portes!
Partis de Toulouse pour se rendre a Cahors, nous avons fait un arret surprise. Une quinzaine de kilometres avant Cahors, il y a une microbrasserie le long de la route nationale! ...
More Medieval Towns
... decipherer of hieroglyphics and consists of an elongated reproduction of the Rosetta Stone. In all, this town had some amazing medieval architecture.
Next we drove to Conques (pronounced Conk) which is a medieval town perched on a hillside but it has a particularly interesting church, Abbaye de Ste-Foy, because it has a sculpture above the entrance, a Tympanum, of the year 1135 depicting the Last Judgement with the devil in hell and Christ in Heaven at the central position and ...
St Cirq- La Popie
... cave with huge caverns but it is best known for the remarkable cave paintings preserved for 25,000 years. There are paintings of mammoths, bison, human figures and hand prints and an amazing painting of dotted horses. It was fascinating but a little difficult to appreciate it fully since the tour was in French. Oh what I'd give for an English speaker!
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La Garrigue
This was a travelling day moving into the mid Pyrenees. We had panoramic views of the Pyrenees as we headed north and as we dropped into the forested area, the country roads were beautiful with autumn leaves spilling on the road and some snow, at ...
Albi and Albigensians
... and I decided that if I could find some inner soles, they would be better padded. After looking for a while, we asked at a sports shoe shop . The very pleasant young man suggested we needed a shoe repair place and in our combined mix of our broken French and his broken English and using our town tourist map we tried to understand the directions. Eventually, in frustration, he turned to the elderly gentleman sitting in the corner. ...
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Les Fontaines
Le cros, 12200 D922, Villefranche-de-Rouergue | B&B
