{"id":589,"date":"2012-06-02T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=589"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:37:01","slug":"the-old-the-new-and-some-thoughts-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/06\/02\/the-old-the-new-and-some-thoughts-on-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old, The New And Some Thoughts On Food\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

Our speediest departure yet! \u00a0 We managed to get up, have breakfast and prepare Eileen for departure in exactly 2 hours.\u00a0 That still sounds like a long time to me, but we cannot seem to do it any faster.\u00a0 We checked out of the campsite at Les Eyzies and drove to the other side of the village to the Grotte de Font-de-Gaume.\u00a0 We queued for 20 minutes until the ticket office opened and then managed to get on the 10.30am tour.\u00a0 We decided on this cave as it is the only one left in the area where you can still view the original<\/span> paintings and carvings.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the tour guide spoke only French so we had to buy the book afterwards to get all the details of the amazing paintings we had just seen. It also enabled us to retain some pictures as cameras are, of course, not allowed inside the cave.<\/p>\n

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A photo of a photo at the Grotte de Font-de-Gaume<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We then drove down through the villages of Campagne, Le Bugue and Limeuil, to Tremolat, all of which were really picturesque. We bought our daily baguette and had a picnic in Tremolat before driving back to Limeuil.\u00a0 This is a lovely old village built all the way up the sides of a steep hill above the river and ends at the top with the remains of an old mansion.\u00a0 The Jardins Panoramique which surround it are lovely and the view back down the hill is spectacular.\u00a0 The rivers Dordogne and V\u00e9z\u00e8re join at Limeuil and there are two bridges at right angles which cross each river.<\/p>\n

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The panoramic view from the gardens at Limeuil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Apparently Limeuil used to be quite an important port until the end of the 18th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Near the top of the village there is even a lovely old Perigordian house where ladies reputedly provided \u2018comfort\u2019 for the sailors and bargemen\u2026\u2026.\u00a0 I\u2019m not so sure, because if the sailors had had a drink in the bar by the river, there is no way they would have made it up the steep and slippery road to the top of the town; we were both really puffing strolling up there…. sober.<\/p>\n

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A woman at the ‘House of Comfort’, Limeuil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Next stop on today\u2019s itinerary was at Aldi for more stores; this place drives me crazy, I can never find what we need and everything seems to be in large packs.\u00a0 The carrots looked good but we have no room to store\u00a0thirty of them.\u00a0 So having made a few purchases there, we then crossed the road to the Intermarche to do the rest of the shopping that we needed.\u00a0 We drove a little east of Le Bugue and checked in to the Camping les Trois Caupain, had a swim in one of the\u00a0two pools and then, quite late in the day, I cooked up pork in a cream and mushroom sauce with veggies, followed by cherries and chocolate.\u00a0 I also drank another glass of wine and felt the heady effects before I had even finished my meal. \u00a0After much giggling and tears I then fell asleep in my chair.\u00a0 Rodney has now banned me from drinking more than half a glass in future.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s now Saturday morning and we\u2019ve decided to do nothing much at all. We\u2019ve had a late breakfast, missed the market in town, we\u2019ve read our books and the one on the cave we visited yesterday.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have a swim when I finish typing and then we\u2019ll cook up a late lunch with the remainders of the pork filet, perhaps in a teriyaki marinade with rice today.\u00a0 \u00a0 We\u2019ve both decided we may pass on the foie gras, which is a speciality of this area, because we have just been reading up about it and think the whole thing sounds quite disgusting.\u00a0 There\u2019s plenty of nice things in the world to eat without excessively force-feeding ducks and geese in cages to produce grossly bloated livers.\u00a0 Mind you I also won\u2019t be eating any frogs legs or snails, purely because I\u2019m turning my nose up at the very thought of it\u2026..!\u00a0 One of the tastiest things we have found is raspberry jaffa cakes, I think they beat the traditional orange ones!\u00a0 Luckily we bought a mega pack in Aldi\u2026\u2026..!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our speediest departure yet! \u00a0 We managed to get up, have breakfast and prepare Eileen for departure in exactly 2 hours.\u00a0 That still sounds like a long time to me, but we cannot seem to do it any faster.\u00a0 We checked out of the campsite at Les Eyzies and drove to the other side of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7532,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/7532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}