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THE PAST TEN DAYS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE…
... the town's Roman ruins. Chip better. Pizza dinner.
Oct. 20- Chip feeling better; Joni sick of hearing about it. (How much snot can run out of one person in a day, anyway?) Drive to Lot River Valley (5 hours or so) mostly through rain. Arrive in Catus at our gite for the week. What a nice place (see pics). Very nice dinner in town. (& cheap compared to where we had ...
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 ...
Everywhere we look, a bloody castle!
... set up for tourists. This castle was purely for defensive purposes, where a lot of those we seen have been primarily been the family home of rich Barons and Lords. Chateaux Castlenaud is set as a working defensive castle and has an unbelievable display of weapons through the ages, from crossbows and catapaults, through to cannon. It is a little bit like a medieval "Sovereign Hill" with all sorts of activities in the summer months. sounds a bit daggy, but it ...
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
... 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 ...
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