We have had poor wifi connections recently so the blog is a bit behind; we are currently in Spain. After Domme we visited the chateau of Castelnaud, a few miles west down the dordogne valley. It is a lovely castle,…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Colin’s thoughts on Domme.
(Colin: “Oh No! Not another Bastide town to walk round”). We parked at La Perpetuum, a campsite on the banks of the Dordogne about 2km from Domme, in the sunshine. Domme is an old fortified medieval town, or Bastide,…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Domme
Early Modern Man and the Gouffre de Proumeyssac
We are in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, a little town in the Vezere valley, which has become the de facto prehistoric capital of the region. The town is built under dramatic overhanging limestone cliffs, undercut over the millennia by the flow of…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Lawrie and Cheryl
We are in Le Bugue…..X marks the spot. We set off from Bergerac following the Dordogne, lunched at the aire in Lalinde, then moved on to stay at Les Trois Caupains campsite in Le Bugue. Le Bugue is a little…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Le Bugue
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Le Bugue
Saint Emilion….Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1928 on Offer
This is the lovely campsite Yelloh! St Emilion, close to St Emilion. We arrived two days before the site closed for the autumn; enough time to explore the village and navigate the lake on the pedalo’s and kayaks that visitors…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Saint Emilion
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Saint Emilion
Andernos-les-Bains via Cap Ferret
First stop Cap Ferret after leaving La Huga, and a walk on the beach between the remnants of the Atlantic Wall. We moved on to Camping La Fontaine Vieille, at Andernos-les-Bains Our Pitch in the Woods Andernos is an old…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Andernos-les-Bains, Aquitaine
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Andernos-les-Bains, Aquitaine
Lucien and Other Weird Local Fauna
I cycled in to town for the days grub….French bread is superb but does need to be bought fresh each day. As well as the usual baguette I bought a ‘viking’ loaf…dark, almost black, malt and rye flour we thought…delicious.…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Lac Lacanau
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Lac Lacanau
Miss Gladys and a Chopper
I took the dogs down to Lac d’Hourtin before we set off. Colin likes to sit down as much as possible on the walks. Then we moved on to an aire at Le Huga, a small village on the road…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Lac d'Hourtin
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Aquitaine, Lac d'Hourtin
Fontevraud to the Médoc
We have been inching ourselves south since the visit to Fontevraud and are now near Lacanau Ocean, in the Médoc. First stop was in an Aire by this lake in Parthenay. We had planned to move straight on to Soubrise,…
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Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Fontevraud, Pays-de-la-Loire
Posted in - France, 2013 Autumn, Fontevraud, Pays-de-la-Loire
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