Author: Rosie

Rosie just kind of tripped over this town on the internet and when she looked at the online images of this wee village she was hooked…line and sinker.  The old town just looks like the crumbliest, crustiest medieval village around ever, narrow alleyways that have never seen let alone fit a car down them.  Tall stone buildings shade the alleys, the limestone crumbling from the walls, cracks down the brickwork, flaking paint on the window shutters, it is glorious.   All this decay of the ages combined with that French pride of appearance and distinctive tall upright, square and elegant buildings leave Rosie swooning.

By 1000 am we were out the door for a wee tour around the Dordogne before it got to hot.  First stop was Domme, an old fortified village built on a clifftop in 1281 with the most beautiful panorama of the Dordogne Valley and River.  It looks so beautiful from up high, the winding blue snake of the river cutting through the patchwork fields.  On the river people in canoes were taking advantage of the down stream current and just drifting along in the sunshine.  The sun warmed our backs as we lent on the stone wall gazing at the view.  

…off we go to Beynac, another town perched on the roadside and rising up into the cliffs.  It is beautiful and picturesque, it looks a little more real and gritter than the prettier village of La Roque we visited yesterday.  There are no tourist shops, just the bakery, butcher and cheese shop to supply the locals.  The Dordogne runs past the village and it is another slow moving blue sky day.