Day 20: Château de Beynac

Catherine says :

Temperature: high 20s
Sky: overcast
Humidity: frizzy hair day

Today we spent most of the day at Château de Beynac.  Driving at Nana-speed (The Little Mother is still not quite comfortable with me driving at the allowable 90km per hour around the tight winding roads we frequently come across) it took us about one and a half hours.  If I didn't have a Nana in the car I could have done it in 45 minutes. 

The sight of the Château was really quite spectacular.  It sits high on a lime cliff face overlooking the Dordogne river and the countryside below. 

To digress somewhat, I must admit that there has not been one day when I haven't been overwhelmed by the beauty, the history or the culture of this magnificent country.  I have well and truly become a Francophile.  All that is missing is a good grasp of their wonderful language.  I propose to embrace French lessons with gusto upon my return home.  I cannot wait to return here and when I do I want to come equipped with fully functioning French!  (The Mater really does exaggerate her perceived opinion of my French language skills!)

So back to the Château - I won't give you a history lesson, you can read that on Wikipedia - it's enormous and on par with Carcassone in its mind blowing greatness.  See - it's so spectacular that I'm running out of adjectives.

Rather than upload a tonne of photographs onto this blog post I'm going to upload only one below and then I'm going to let you all into a handy little trick - if you let your mouse (cursor) hover over the photograph below you will see arrows superimposed on the left and right hand  margins of the picture.  Click on these arrows to scroll back and forth between the photos in the France 2014 album on flickr.

I will however - in a separate post - upload all of the photographs taken by The Little Mother because she is quite proud of her handy work (especially the shots she takes of our meals!) as am I and she deserves due recognition of how well she is manipulating her new Nikon Phd ("push here dummy") camera.




..and AZ, no we didn't find Monsieur Shreque at this castle either!