![]() Had a good wander round the town and up to the viewpoint and then took a little train ride that takes you all round the town and out and down to a huge car park at the bottom of the hill. Next day we drove out to Domme, our sat nav took us down some very small twisty roads so that was a bit unnerving but we made it only to discover the small car park was completely full, whilst we were dithering about what to do we had cars behind beeping their horns so we decided to drive off but just as we were coming back out of the town someone drove off from a side street so we were able to quickly take their place and had free parking for the day. Headed back out later on for an evening meal and DH ordered from a 3 course fixed price menu and I ordered from the a la carte, we both had starters of foie gras and mine was enormous and his was paltry and the same happened with the main meal, as you can imagine he didn't do that again. We discovered that Sarlat had been virtually abandoned at one point and left to go to ruin but somebody had the foresight to rescue it and it has been wonderfully restored back to its former glory. We had a small lunch in the main square and then joined a guided history tour which was really good, very informative. As it was such a hot day this made it quite smelly as you can imagine, I felt very sorry for all the animals being penned up in such small places in searing heat, they were also left where they were overnight and all the following day. It was absolutely packed as not only was it the start of a school holiday they were also having a gastronomic 2 day event with lots of market stalls and lots of pens everywhere with horses, cows, ducks, geese etc etc all round the town. ![]() It's a really beautiful town, lots of tall medieval buildings and tiny twisty streets and alleys to wander around in. The following day, Thursday, we decided we couldn't face getting back in the car so just had a good wander round Sarlat. That cheered us up even more as we settled in to unpack with two large glasses of wine. They offer breakfast each day which you have to pay extra for but we felt it was worth it, there was the usual continental meats and cheeses, cereals, fresh fruit, yoghurts, croissants and other pastries and he will also cook eggs to order.Īlso, our host pointed out a 'snack room' that he said we were to make full use of and help ourselves to whatever we wanted, there was wine, beer, soft drinks, hot drinks, chocolate bars, nuts, pringles, biscuits (cookies) cakes and all sorts of other bits. We stayed at a lovely little place called Les Cordeliers, they only have 5 rooms and the hosts are both English who've lived there for the last 12 years. There was only a large roll top bath with a shower attachment which at first I wasn't too happy about but I quickly got used to having a bath everyday and actually enjoyed it. We finally arrived at 10.30pm tired and fed up but seeing our room cheered us up, it was absolutely huge with an equally huge bathroom. By 9 o'clock I was ringing our B & B to let them know we were still on our way in case they thought we were no shows and they were fine about it, said they would stay up till whatever time we got there and let us in. Just got back from our 10 day stay in Sarlat in the Dordogne which was simply wonderful although we got off to a bad start.Įarly Wednesday morning we set off from Manchester (UK) via Amsterdam and after having had our flight time changed twice we landed at Bordeaux at 4pm, picked up our rental car and got straight onto the motorway just to find there had been a few really bad accidents and we were at a standstill for hours. ![]()
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