France trip

We were in the south of France last week for a gloriously sunny, relaxing and gluttonous holiday.

Our lovely home for the week

We based ourselves a couple of km off the main road through the Lot valley, an hour or so north of Toulouse. From there we explored the local area around Cahors (red wine country) and the medieval towns of the area across towards the Dordogne.

Our car was a beast of a machine with any fancy function you can imagine including a head up display (which I couldn't get used to) and a button hand brake (which I couldn't work). Very efficient, but quite a mammoth on the one track, cliff/river edge roads.

Still, the car journeys gave us plenty of opportunity to listen to French radio. It has an astonishing mix of current music and obscure 80s classics. It's a bit like they collect up the records and start playing them as radio 2 chuck them out.

Just a small section of the vineyards

Being wine country, we thought it only right that we should try as many local producer's output as possible, and at €2 a bottle, it was a feasible plan. Between 10 of us, we got through 50 bottles in 7 days. That doesn't sound too bad, but we also had an additional 10litre box of wine, plus beer, plus port and one night we had cocktails so little wine was drunk.

No wonder I've been struggling somewhat this week.

Besides the wine, the cheese and duck also managed to get sampled on a number of occasions. This included a pizza topped with bacon, duck and something we never translated...

Photos mine

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