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Glad to see you're following along. Cycling is the best way, I think, to see a country, with the added benefit of needing to eat lots of delicious food!
5 years agoLoving the photos Jacquie. Keep it up! Looks like you're seeing lots of scenery and food. 😊🍷
5 years agoThanks, but I can’t claim credit where none is due. I stole the squiggle description from Emily Sharp. Very descriptive.
5 years agoCorrect. We stayed in Bouzies about 20 years ago, just a few hundred yards from from the English Defile, and walked the towpath to St-Cirque-Lapopie. It’s one of my favorite memories from traveling in France. I didn’t know you could bike it, but it sounds frightening.
5 years agoCarennac, Saint Cere, Figeac - you’re retracing a route we followed a decade ago. The Geoffre de Padirac though - we’ve never seen that, and it looks incredible. We’ll have to go back.
5 years agoWell a traiteur is a "caterer", but I don't think it would be different from a charcuterie, except maybe a traiteur is more oriented to take out. In eastern Canada, in the age when we were in to such things, caterers were the people who came and fed the people at your wedding, mostly by reheating stuff they had prepared off site.
While I am blithering, the word and the business type "delicatessen" does not seem to figure in Europe. In Germany you have metzgerei, but that is more purely a butcher shop.
We have decided to stay put and ride around the lake today. Still raining and not looking encouraging for tomorrow either. Silly weather, but we are feeling restless so are heading around the lake regardless. I am going to check your 2017 page now ☔️
5 years agoWe might leave here via Domme. It's in the right direction!
5 years agoWe had our wettest day in 2017 riding from Annecy to Le Bourget-du-Lac (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=509989j. I hope your day is better!
5 years agoWow. That was quite the day and you are so fortunate with the bike assistance. The bike shops here we have seen were closed yesterday for the holiday. Our forecast deteriorated over night and this weather looks like it is settling in. We are going for breakfast to decide what to do.
5 years agoWow! Quite the story. Amazing to get bike assistance like that. I’m glad it worked out well, but it’s a shame about the weather - I think the view of the Dordogne from Domme is one of my favorite in France.
5 years agoI booked this place and others using chambres-hotes.fr. Hosts don’t always speak English and check-in is often late afternoon.
5 years agoI am catching up on your blog. I got behind a day. Good thing you are cycling hehe. Your blog read like food porn. Sounded absolutely fantastic. Did you book the chamber d’hôte using a booking app or is there a better way? We need to go have breakfast now. You have made me hungry.
5 years agoIt was. Visiting the Grottes de Font de Gaume and Combarelles (while it's still possible) were the other highlights so far.
5 years ago
I love the squiggle verb. We squiggled today on the white roads.
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