Premiere Classe Brive La Gaillarde Ouest Brive-la-Gaillarde

... some way off and enjoyed the view as we walked the 1km to the top...

By the time we made it to the bottom the heavens had opened. An extremely rude little man told us off for standing under some shelter in the street but out the front of his shop. I just laughed and then ignored him which made him furious... serves him right ...

... and a ruin of an old church which lit up at night.
Wednesday 4 Nov
Some blue skies finally appeared about 9am this morning so we set out to have a last wander through the village, take some more photos and more importantly buy some quiches for lunch - yum!

Another pretty little village this time famous for its red brick houses. A little more life than the last few villages and even a few shops open, one of which specialised in foie gras. As this is foie gras territory we did as the locals do and bought ourselves some which we will enjoy one night with one of the remaining bottle of champagne we still have in Scooby.

Gorgeous!!! Not a soul insight as we had arrived at lunchtime and we only met 2 other tourists, on deptarture - a retired English couple who had seen us in Blois - they recognised Scooby :) Rolling fog and mist coming up the valley started to clear and revealed a valley full of autumn colours. We made our way to the Waterfalls and then followed the riverside walk before heading back to Scooby to have lunch and further appreciate the view.

Set upon the River Vezere and quite pretty due to its 15th and 16th century Maisons a Tourelles, which looks like miniture castles due to their turrets. The rain had stopped for our little walk around the village but started again when we got back to the car - great timing!

We left the bordeaux region today for the dordogne valley - the ancient town of Sarlat - waaaay medieval-
I've determined that there is not enough of france to walk in to justify the amount of food we've been eating...oof. We havent even had any pastries or creme brulee we're so full from lunch and dinner!
we"ll post more in the matin!
Bonne Nuit!

... time for a late lunch. You can see why he eventually wants to live here, because the region is gorgeous, and the food so divine. It truly is the good life, here in this part of France.

Shuttle back to Vitrac, where I started today, and got a ride from the girl that was supposed to pick me up this morning. Seeing her car, I recognized it from this morning just outside the garden at the castle - I apologized for missing her this morning. Surprisingly, we were ...

... gestured to some baguette, but ended up choosing a loaf of fancy bread that cost 5 euros! Again, it's not even the cost - for 5 euros, she could've had some baguette, a couple of croissants, and some other items. No matter, she got what she wanted.

I think I need to start shopping at jewelry stores in Spain, in the hopes that a beautiful Spanish senorita will sidle up to me and ask "Will you buy me an engagement ring?" My credit card would fly out so ...

... They had a metal loop on their backs so the children could fish them out with bamboo rods. Grubby stuffed animals were to be won but by the looks of them they had been hanging there for ages, not won or not wanted.
No one was attending the stall anyway.

The traditional long table was waiting under the trees but there was very little sign of interest, as a matter of fact there weren't that many around at all. Realistically we knew something was not right but sought out the lady ...

So back to my travel pod, which I have been very slack keeping up this year which is a bit ironic as I have hardly been in country, spending too much time out travelling. Today I am updating with my wonderful French cooking course followed by pub crawling around the UK in a very sexy Aston Martin, which wasn't actually the plan but as there seems to be a pub on every corner that ...