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Travel Blogs from St Merd de Lapleau
Limoges and the Rain
... wine of the region. A few purchases are made. We dine at La Bailliage and now as we have become accustomed to settle on the set three course meal of local fare. Sausages are a speciality of the region so i settle on this, Betsy the fish and Camille the Coq au vin for our mains. Desserts once again were superb with Betsy's Creme Brulée the pick. Overall a fine meal was had and the belt buckle being let out a couple of notches testifies to the fine dining so far in ...
A little bit closer to home.......
Left our little stone cottage in the village of Les Tuilleres this morning to a lovely crisp morning with a view down into the valley shrouded with fog. An easy drive today, predominately on freeway, with a destination half way to Paris. An uneventful trip except for the truck that passed us that had a giant panda sitting in the passenger seat. I suppose it must get lonely on those long haul drives across several country's....... Arrived at our Chateau a bit early ...
Moving on.....
... probably just a piece of architectural detail that these medieval buildings have. I found it today. It is high on one of the battlements on this bridge. There is only one and there is no other detail of this sort on this bridge, in fact it is rather devoid of embellishments which makes me even more curious what this little guy is about.... Will have to do some googling. Roger took a pic, but the gremlin is so high up we're not sure how well it will turn out. ...
A lazy day
... for a beer and to write the daily blog entry. It was the first time we have had a conversation with someone one other than each other in 4 weeks. It seemed like a pretty perfect lifestyle, quaint village, red checked table cloths, etc. I asked them if they were living their dream, they both laughed hysterically, perhaps not so idyllic! One of them did say that it was hard to remember the dream when last winter it got to minus ...
The highs and lows of Lot
... the whole thing in, in the hope no one would notice. The next morning the priest declared yet another miracle. Whatever the story, we think its pretty cool that she's black. Of course, a place like this has many, many stairs, and I'm not embarrassed to say that today I took the soft option, for a very small part of the up hill, and jumped on the French version of the Thomas the Tank train. Shared the journey with a very excited little back dog who ...