Road trip to Sarlat, France

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September 13th 2009

Published: September 15th 2009

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Setting off

Planned at beginning to go to France with parents. My aunt decided to come too - she ended up organising the trip as she knew France quite well and wanted to drive in Europe in her sports car. With Sarlat in the Dordogne as the base we were guaranteed beautiful scenery. Dad & Mum travelled down by train and I hired a 4 seat car for the week there. Turned out we got fantastic weather the whole week in Sarlat and had a marvellous time. Canoeing down the river Dordogne for 15 km between Vitrac and Beynac was a definate highlight. Saw fair share of chateaux. Also saw wonderful replica cave paintings at Lascaux II - originals only accidentally discovered in 1940 by 4 teenagers and Robot the dog! Road trip was great, lots of good memories, some captured in photos. Note - no mention of food in this blog (would bore you to tears rapturing but I can't end blog without mentioning French nougat - c'est delicieux!).

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Traverser la Manche

The Eurotunnel train trip was surprisingly easy both ways.

Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Chartres

Complete with Michelin Man.

Tangoed bedroom in Chenonceaux

Needed sunglasses to get to sleep!

Tangoed bedroom - view 2

Plus toning kettle!

Le chateau de Chenonceau et les jardins

Another famous sight including scaffolding! (Also nicknamed 'the ladies chateau').

Dans La Galerie de le chateau

Go cross eyed looking at this. Lucky not full of tourists!

At Saturday's market in Sarlat

Chateau de Beynac

Beautiful view of surrounding Dordogne countryside. During the Hundred Years War Richard the Lionheart apparently seized the castle by scaling the cliff below and entering through the toilet holes suspended out over the cliff!