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... and evil. It was quite fascinating. Its interior was austere, typical of the Romansque style of 1050 - 1135.
Our third village for the day, just because we hadn't had enough of medieval villages, was the famous Rocamadour. This village runs down a sheer rock face. It houses a holy shrine and is a centre of pilgramage and is a huge tourist attraction. We saw all the chapels and main basilica but refrained from buying any religious token. It certainly was a spectacular sight, though.
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St Cirq- La Popie
Today we visited Saint Cirq La Popie, a medieval village, which has been voted the most beautiful village in France. It sits perched on a rock face overlooking the Lot River valley. And it is beautiful - with its steep streets, fine houses, narrow alleys, grapevines crawling up walls - it's just gorgeous. We spent ages strolling around appreciating the ...
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
... the colours,sounds and smells. There are the beautiful piles of green tinged, bright yellow clementines still with pieces of stems and leaves attached, ripe red tomatoes in different shapes and sizes, the displays of olives from black to bright green. Another fascination to me is the range of mushrooms that are available - huge brown ones, little bright yellow frilly ones and every size in between. Why don't we get them at home, at least in ...
Bordeaux and Blaye
Bordeaux
Gosh hard to find time to blog these days however.....We arrived in THE wine country and were so happy to be in France. We had taken a ryanair flight to Bordeaux which had free seating meaning we were separated and scrambling for somewhere to park ourselves. Quick flight though and cheap.
Bordeaux is a fairly gritty looking city, mainly a student town by the looks, ...
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