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Went to a fabulous castle in the morning, Chateau Commarque, everything from paleolithic to middle ages with some good Roman bits thrown in. Met the owner on the (fairly long) walk down through the woods to get there and discovered that one of troglodyte caves that we couldn’t get in to see is larger than Notre Dame cathedral! Canoe trip down the river in the afternoon, crew contemplated mutiny,  first mate was attacked by horseflies most of the way, so I think I was the only one who really enjoyed it…

Decent supper to finish seems to have cheered them all back up though 🙂 

Stopped in Perigueux on the way to our hotel in Les Eyzies. The cathedral of St Front is beautiful with an amazing bit of wood carving behind the altar but the statuette of him is a little odd…

Hotel is delightful so started with some relaxing by the pool before heading out to supper, fabulous meal. Jacob and Jessica had 3,Elise 4 and I had the full 5 course ‘fat boy’ menu 🙂

12th Century but mostly used as a builders merchant through the middle ages supplying stone to build local houses once it had been smashed up in a Protestant /Catholic falling out.

Just relaxing… Views of the gite, the river where Jacob and I park to get breakfast each morning and an interesting tree from my afternoon stroll.

Jacob communing with a fish. I say communing, I think it turned into more of a staring contest in which the fish, being completely devoid of eyelids, had a certain advantage! That said, Jacob’s opposable thumbs gave him the upper hand in round 2 ‘opening the door and going for lunch’ so I think we can call it a draw overall

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