Kyriad Brive La Gaillarde Centre
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Travel Blogs from Brive-la-Gaillarde
Dordogne - Bastides, chateaux and walnuts
... inside. We had heard nothing during the night and the room was on the second floor. We decided that Jean Luc had come silently in the night and shut them somehow from below, reasoning that Martine was never able to do anything so silently. Neither said a word about it at breakfast and, as we leaving that morning, we didn't pursue the matter. Maybe it was just the ghost of one of those old monks protecting his solitary room.
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A lazy day
... and the food bought out - no menus, just 4 courses of fabulous country cooking. It seemed most tables got different food, but what was really interesting was seeing the tradies in there having their 2 hour, 4 course lunch break. All up with beer and wine it was 14€ each. So cheap to eat good quality food here. After lunch took a short trip to see 3 of the most picturesque villages in France, and they didn't ...
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. ...
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 ...
Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking
- Pets allowed