Visiting the villages

Have had a wonderful time over the last couple of days visiting a few of the stand out villages of the Dordogne. On Monday went to Domme and La Roque Gageau (not sure about the spelling of this one) with Carmel and Gerry while Bea and Phil decided to have a quiet day at home.  We had a wonderful day strolling around these two beauties.  Domme is set on a hill and looks out over the Dordogne River and the beautiful countryside in this area.  La Roque is set beside the river and is built into the side of a cliff.  At both places we had walks and coffee and sometimes little pastries that make your body sing (better than bananas!!!)

  

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At Romomadour





Yesterday we went to Rocamodaur, another village set into a cliff face.  You park at the top and it was great for Bea as they had a lift which took her and Phil down to different levels.  This made it easier as the early builders did not have "disabled access" as one of their criteria when they created cobblestones.  I pushed her around in Beynac for a while over cobblestones and it was not easy.  Phil and her are amazing how they handle these situations and they try everything. 

When we got home from Rocomadour, we all went swimming and had champagne down by the pool looking back at our gorgeous house.  It was a wonderful afternoon.  We realised the tennis was on and Tsonga and Djokovic were in a tight tussle so watched that for a while as well.  Lucky we are all avid tennis fans. 

We have dinner out on the terrace every night and always make an effort to have a lovely table setting with flowers etc.  We eat extremely well.  Last night Phil made us salmon and scallops which was amazing.  Cards is pretty popular at night and Phil and I remain the 500 champs though Gerry and John came back last night with Carmel's help. 

So all is well in paradise.  We have our French chef coming in tomorrow night to give us cooking lessons and dinner.  We are all very excited.  We are also going canoeing tomorrow.  So it should be a good day.  Even Bea is considering coming canoeing.  Today we are off to the market in Sarlat.  It is a bit drizzly this morning but seeing as though they predicted drizzle for the whole week and we have had perfect weather think we can put up with that.

Take care and love to all.



Our piece of paradise