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Dordogne - Bastides, chateaux and walnuts
... s and 30's burlesque shows. It was all set up showing her life, costumes, photos, with her music playing and we saw all her rooms, bathrooms, children's bedrooms and so on. It smelt very musty but was interesting. She also helped the French Resistance in the war and was honoured for that. She died in 1975.
We were pleased we visited the Jardins de Marqueyssac. We had a long walk on the cliff walk and saw more spectacular views of the valley. The gardens ...
The Valley of Wines
... church bells ringing out across the town.
After a couple of Leffe Ruby beers and a steak we walked back to the hotel. I couldn't manage the blog, I was exhausted, so decided I would do it today instead.
I am sure other than a couple of people in the HOG, this is just disappearing into the www and not being read, but I am enjoying writing it....so will continue on
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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
... 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, ...
Dordogne - Castenaud & grottes
Last full day. What to do?! Must see Castenaud according to other guests, & C wants to see 'grottes' (caves). Start with Castelnaud. C had wanted to walk, but accepted we needed to get our skates on. Lucky, as the walk to the village would have been fine, but the climb up to the castle would have been a killer! Castle very interesting to me - full of weapons, ...