Woke up this morning to see the cows playing in the field. Fresh eggs from the girls here, down the lane for berries; baguette and croissants from the boulangarie. Wandered about the market.
The Dordogne has suffered from drought so the grazing fields have been affected terribly. Blackberries are down 50% at least in size, plums and cherries down 80% but blueberries have exploded as you can see below
Monsieur and Madame Blondy are hard at it fabricating the most superb bread and pastries in tout la region.
The local market on Saturday has grown by a quarter and we found this great clock. Cant bring it home but at 790Euro was a bargain. There were many at around 290E. But we did manage to bring back some 3 year old cheese called Beaufort. It has that aged matured flavour that only comes with using raw milk and close supervision. The taste is to die for. It just goes so perfectly with a fresh baguette and some fruit vinegar provided by our hosts Karen and Steve.
Cro-magnum village of sorts at Le Thot. It is the overflow of LascauxII where they keep animals representative of the Ice age and up to 5000BC. Guy is standing in the prehistoric dwelling that they may have used.
They didn't find any real elephants or Mammoths for us. But there was plenty of bison, buffalo, horses, deer of various varieties and goats.
Because we were near Montignac it was not possible to not go to the Glace de Lascaux shop for these heavenly delights
After our return home Nana nap we awoke before dinner to an all too familiar sunset. Bonsoir from us to you.
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