Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Lazy river, Dordogne style!

A couple of weeks ago we took a day off and as it was such a nice day decided to do what most of our guests do whilst staying here, canoe (for the first time for us) on the Dordogne river. Starting at Vitrac we meandered with the strong river current taking in all the major sights that are on show. La Roque-Gageac (above) with its houses clinging to the side of the sheer cliff face being the first.
After over 2.5 hours, the finishing point of Beynac (below) was in the distance with its magnificent Chateau perched on top of the hill. It certainly is no surprise why this is one of the major 'to do's' for all whilst in the region!
A big thank you to all of you who follow this blog, we have now gone over 20,000 viewings of the blog since I started it many years ago!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Big news!

The route for next years Tour de France was announced at lunch time today, great news for our area is that the tour has a stage starting in Perigueux, ending in Bergerac and is passing through Montignac, our nearest town, in July 2017. We're not sure at the moment but we think the route is passing very very close to Les Granges but this has not been confirmed yet....watch this space again soon for more information as we find out!