Les Feuillantines
Travel Blogs from St.-Cyprien
THE PAST TEN DAYS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE…
... 8217;re from Minnesota!” “Oh, then you can buy our wine at a place called Surdyk’s. In fact, their representative is in the area now trying more wines.” Too weird!
Our third stop was also especially interesting. The property was at the top of a remote hill, with six houses for the owners, their children and grandchildren. Everybody helps with the ...
Dordogne - Bastides, chateaux and walnuts
... hedge were created in fantastic swirls and rounded shapes all fitting together. Lunch at the cafe, of Salade de Jardins with lettuce, tomato, egg, emanthal cheese, walnuts and apple was fresh and tasty. We had a white wine with it and then shared a rhubarb tart with rhubarb sherbert. I found out that the little pink flowers we see wild everywhere through the forests and gardens are tiny cyclamens.
The Chateau at Beynac gave the best sense of being ...
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!
Roger wanted to go visit some pretty spectacular gardens today. We haven't actually seen much in the way of typical French parterre type gardens since we've been here. We missed the one's at Louis' place. This garden is about 80k's from where we are staying, and like just about everything here, located on the top of a hill! The gardens have a huge amount of clipped hedging and topiary which looked pretty amazing. The view from the top was sensational from ...
Prehistoric Cave Paintings
... white canneloni beans).
We woke up super early to get in line for the nearest caves. I had tried to get advance tickets months earlier, but they were sold out until 2013. However, there are a small number of first come, first serve tickets released at the start of each day. We were 4th and 5th in line at 7:45, with around 40 people in line by the time it opened at 9:30. Only about the first 10 of us would get tickets. ...
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Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking
- Kitchenette