It is now Thursday, 29 October \u263a 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:<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n We finally arrived at Loubressac. Magical…<\/p>\n![\"1027151003b\"](\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1027151003b.jpg\")
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