It is now Thursday, 29 October ☺ and we will be leaving Beynac in a few hours. I’m going to try to catch up a bit in this blog (and the next). Our Internet has been down since a thunder/lightning storm of truly biblical proportions on Tuesday night. Here’s an update:
Tuesday (Day four in Beynac): After another long walk on the banks of the Dordogne (where bunny became obsessed with the acorns), we decided to drive east to a town that we had heard was quite beautiful. It took almost two hours to get there – and if you could see the backroads here you would understand why it would take that amount of time to cover about 30 miles. Some roads were barely wide enough for one car and there were many sharp turns and healthy climbs and descents. And then there were the locals driving. O. M. G. Marty did a great job of keeping us alive (goal #1) and getting us there (very much a secondary aspiration).
But more remarkable than the wild driving (and the scenery ?) was the sheer volume of very small, very old and very lovely towns we passed through. Some photos:
Sometimes we would stop and stretch our legs but most of the time Bunny snapped photos (not very good ones!) from the car. If we had stopped at every beautiful, old village we encountered we would still be making our way home…
We finally arrived at Loubressac. Magical…
Thanks for reading the blog, sweetie! Because I haven’t been to every region of France, I’ve no idea if the Dordogne is atypical in the quantity of these sweet little villages – but there sure are a lot of them. We are now in Annecy and, while it’s beautiful, it’s the largest city we’ve visited and I wish it were smaller! Anyway, see you soon!
What a beautiful set of towns you went through. The pics are really great at full screen. I could just see how the town Loubressac is built on a hill, like Mont. St. Michel par exemple, complete with roads! What a lovely place. These pics are really convincing me to go to Dordogne. You’re the second person who’s gotten there ahead of me! Thanks for keeping up your blog. I check it every day even if I don’t have time to respond. Glad you’re still experiencing what France has to offer. I look forward to the stories, and the pics, full screen of course.