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Dordogne - Bastides, chateaux and walnuts
... d'oie (goose gizzards - and they are delicious), duck strips (aiguillette) with red fruit sauce and delicious potatoes and sharing our creme caramel and walnut cake with rich chocolate sauce. This we accompanied with the 25cl of the local red wine and the required cafe (coffee). We've decided to give up on any attempt to find a coffee equivalent to our flat whites and stick now to the local tradition of the strong espresso. We've actually come to enjoy ...
Prehistoric Cave Paintings
The Vezere Valley, tucked away in the French interior, is a mecca for prehistoric cave paintings and archeology. Our journey here was inspired by a documentary featuring the paintings at Lascaux: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. It's difficult to visit this area without a car, but being based in Les Eyzies placed us in easy walking distance for a few major sites.
As we rode the train from Bordeaux, I fell in ...
Dordogne - Castenaud & grottes
... catapults. C kept on looking for the living quarters, which were limited in the display - a throne room & the kitchens (C felt more at home in the throne room!). Saw a demonstration of one of the scale trebuchet, one of the biggest catapults. Saw a relatively newly discovered grotte - Maxange. Interesting eccentric crystal growth - not just simple gravity ...
Dordogne - Our 30th wedding anniversary
... soup as pre-entree; prawns on ginger pastry and crayfish & egg in a morel mushroom soup; beef & lamb with lovely vegetables, sauces, & seasonings and cooked to perfection for each of us; raspberries with a custard lightly flavoured with lemon & a chocolate trilogy (ice cream, fried chocolate ball, & chocolate souffle). More champagne as starter - Taittinger this time! - then switched to a local red recommended by the waiter. A fantastic day, finished off with a great meal ...
Dordogne - Le Bugue market & Belves
... I'm too big for French sizings! Then to Belves so C could show me around where she'd stayed with friends in 2008. Unfortunately we got lost to start with, then she couldn't recall which house they'd had! But a cute town, like everything we've seen so ...
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