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| Marchè d'interieur à gauche - Sarlat |
Le jour a
commencé avec la brume autour les collines.
Nous sommes allé à centre-ville pour notre petit déjeuner. L’ancien part de la ville est très joli. Il y avait un marché dans la place ou nous
avons acheté du fromage et des fraises.
Les fraises étaient le meilleur j’ai mangé pour un longtemps.
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| Vendeur de patè |
Nous avons mangé notre déjeuner à côte le Dordogne dans un
village appelle La Roque-Gageac. C’était très tranquille. Puis, nous sommes allé à un autre village,
Beynac-et-Cazenac plusieurs kilomètres plus loin sur la route. Il y a un Château sur le sommet de falaise et
nous le sommes monté. La vue de la
paysage était magnifique. Nous n’avons
pas entré le Château parce que il n’y avait le fois.
Brantôme était
notre dernier destination pour le jour.
Nous trouvions un hôtel avec 2 étoile près de la centre-ville.
We awoke to mist on the hills around
Sarlat-
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| Le fromager |
la-Canéda. We checked out and had
our breakfast in a salon de thé in old part of the town. We came across a couple of small markets, one
in an interesting building which was clearly a regular event and another
temporary market in the square.
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| La Roque-Gageac |
They had cheeses, dried fruit (including
some delicious looking prunes and figs), fresh strawberries, wine and a few
other tasty things. Bev was entranced by
the range of cheeses available, and the fact that you got to taste before you
bought. A piece of blue cheese was
bought, and the fromager was happy to be photographed with his wares. There was also a man selling his range of
patés, rillettes and other goodies. He
was a real delight and we bought some paté from him as well. He happily posed and we got a great photo of
him.
We bought our lunch at one of the local
Boulangers at a little village down the road.
The village, called La Roque-Gageac, was built under and into a cliff
face like
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| Under the cliff - imperiled house abandoned |
Rocamadour (which we had visited previously) but about a tenth of the
size. The village is beside the Dordogne
so we found a shady spot (it was sunny and warm – 28 degrees) by the river and
ate our lunch. We then went for a walk
up and through the village where we found a little memorial to some residents
who had been killed when a part of the cliff face fell on their houses. There is another area where some buildings
are empty and fenced off while they raise the money needed to make the cliff
more secure.
Next on the itinerary was another village called
Beynac-et-Cazenac built on a cliff as well.
It was
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| Beynac-et-Cazenac |
about five or six kilometres downstream from La
Roque-Gageac. The little village is
overlooked by an old fortress style of chateau as opposed to a renaissance era
style like some in the Loire. We walked
up to the Chateau and found that for the little time we had the cost of
entering would not be worth it. We found
a spot however where we had magnificent views of the river and valley. A very beautiful spot! Hopefully the photos will give you some idea
of what it was like. We have been fortunate that there seems to be fewer
tourists than this time last year, so places like the ones we have been to so
far have not been over crowded.
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| Le Dordogne at Beynac-et-Cazenac |
Our final destination was Brantôme, a small
village about 15km northwest of Perigueux. Many of the patés come from this
region as well as truffles. We found a
nice two star hotel in the centre of the village. It was a relatively good price, basic, clean
and comfortable. We had a drink by the
river that flowed through the village and then went to a very nice
café/restaurant that had a simple menu.
The food was very good and quite homely in some ways. It was a good note on which to end the day.
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