Hotel La Source Bleue
Travel Blogs from Touzac
De la biere en France!
... la cathedrale, de conception romaine, avec ces deux grandes coupoles, puis le vieux quartier, qui nous donnne l'impression d'etre encore a l'epoque medieval, jusqu'au moment ou une auto tourne le coin! Puis le fameux pont Valentre qui surplombe la riviere Lot avec ses trois tourelles.
Pour finir la journee, quoi de mieux qu'une degustation des vin de Cahors au Malbec lounge!
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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
... those ancient monks. (I do realise how improbable that is, on several levels.) He moved around silently and reverently, quietly obeying the urgent commands from his busy, bustling wife, Martine.
On our initial wanderings in the narrow little alleys of Sarlat, we came across the 'Maison de Roy' cafe/restaurant where we were tempted in by the suggestion of an apperitif from the waiter. We opted then for the 11.50 euro lunch and enjoyed the Salade ...
Everywhere we look, a bloody castle!
... really good insight into how life must have been. We are a bit over castles, that's why we went with the garden theme today, but it was well worth it. It was interesting drive here though, nearly got cleaned up by a semi- trailer coming down a very steep, narrow and curvy road, while we were going up. Of course he couldn't fit around the bend so he cut the corner, missed me by about 3 cm's Roger says, I had my eyes closed and was just about sitting in ...
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. ...
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free parking