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Published: July 16th 2012
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Bergerac, Aquitaine, FranceGoing for six days to Bordeaux, I wanted to see something more. Thus, I decided to check out Bergerac two hours train ride from Bordeaux and into the countryside. Bergerac is perhaps most known for the famous poet Cyrano de Bergerac, who though very adept in the art of poetry himself has become popular culture through Edmond Rostand's story of him and his big nose. Even more famous after Gerard Depardieu played him in the 1990 movie
Cyrano de Bergerac. But Cyrano de Bergerac's actual life didn't really involve the drame of falling in love with his cousin and being embarrased by the size of his nose, though he might have had an affair with her.
The town of Bergerac is a middlesized French town with approximately 28000 inhabitants many of which are English. It is a well known tourist destination and known for its wine and tobacco productions. It has a pictoresque town centre on the embankments of the river Dordogne. However, it is also a town with a huge amount of large and cruel looking dogs and an above the average amount of obese women. The chef at the hotel where I stayed the night was in that
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Bergerac, Aquitaine, France category and reminding me quite a lot of the sister to Aurelia in Love Actually. So much so, that I wouldn't have been surprised had she spoken Portuguese, kissing Colin Firth.
I spent only a night in Bergerac, but was fortunate enough to hit the town on market day. I love markets, and this was no different. All the French and British women each with her straw bag full of vegetables, fruits, cheese and confiture. For some reason the straw bag is extremely famous in Aquitaine. Even the little girls out shopping with their mothers carry around their own straw bags, and the most visited stand at the market is the one selling straw bags. I was so very close at buying one for myself, but I simply couldn't pick one out of all the different shapes and colours.
So without a straw bag I am heading back to Bordeaux for another few nights before returning to Paris.
Anna
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