Wednesday 25 September
We stopped at Sarlat this morning and cycled down to the
beautiful Medieval town with a walled inner part that had a huge market when we
arrived selling all sorts of local farmers produce and other goods. I bought
four salamis, wild boar, duck, cep and bison to bring home if I can resist the
temptation to eat them before then.
This area is known for growing tobacco although not as much
as in the past, it seemed strange seeing tobacco plants growing by the roadside
and leaves hanging in the sun to dry. The last time I saw tobacco plants was
when I worked as a kiln hanger on a tobacco farm in Canada when I was a
student, these seemed to have smaller leaves than those I remember.
Spent the night on a Walnut farm run by a lovely lady called
Raymond who made us extremely welcome and presented us with a small basket of
walnuts and a little jug of her own walnut oil that we had on our prawns and
later cheese for tea, it was delicious.
Again it was just us camped in the middle of a walnut
orchard about 3 miles from the nearest main road right out in the backwoods.
Bison cave painting Lascaux 2
Cave painting at Lascaux 2
Cathedral at Perigeaux
Shelling prawns for tea in the orchard at Raymond's
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