{"id":2065,"date":"2013-10-23T01:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2013-10-23T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:55:01","slug":"the-stunning-villages-of-the-dordogne-southern-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"The stunning villages of the Dordogne….. Southern France"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been staying in the beautiful region of the Dordogne in southern France for the past couple of days. It is an area made up of some of the most unique\u00a0villages I have ever seen. We stayed in Sarlat-La-Caneda, and whether we explored the bastide town of Domme, the beautiful river side villages of Baynac\u00a0and La Roque Gageac, the magical cliff side town of Rocamadour,\u00a0 Mal’s favourite little village on the hill, Belves,\u00a0or the numerous chateaux of the “one hundred years war”, we were close.<\/p>\n

After a morning of exploring the villages including many more stairs, today we decided at about 2pm to give the traditional French way of eating a go. Very small breakfast, huge lunch (3 courses) and small dinner (none for us). We found a small restaurant on the hill in Rocque\u00a0Gageac\u00a0and ordered their set menu (in French….very adventurous for Mal !!!!), and really enjoyed it. They start with a generous salad first, (we had Les Nems\u00a0de Canard, sauce Sangria\u00a0….ate the lot), then Mal had the chicken dish we hope (Les Brochettes\u00a0de blanc de volaille au miel\u00a0et moutarde\u00a0a la ancienne) and I enjoyed Le Confit\u00a0de Canard ( Yummy….but could not eat it all…. I wonder why), and then we finished with La Tarte\u00a0au Pommes. Will do more walking later today, but actually feel ok. I think the salad to start is a great idea.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy my photos of the villages……<\/p>\n

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Salat France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Salat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lots of character in Salat…. left click on any of the photos to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Belves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The village of Domme…Mal having a coffee (called “caf\u00e9” in France) after I bought a beautiful silver necklace next door, direct from the artisan…www.charlesduret.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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La Chat Noir (black cat in English….a little smaller than Salem)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ros in Rocque\u00a0Gageac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The skies over France are full of jet streams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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La Roque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stunning villages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Fayrac\u00a0Manor Beynac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beynac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chateau Beynac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We have been staying in the beautiful region of the Dordogne in southern France for the past couple of days. It is an area made up of some of the most unique\u00a0villages I have ever seen. We stayed in Sarlat-La-Caneda, and whether we explored the bastide town of Domme, the beautiful river side villages of … Continue reading The stunning villages of the Dordogne….. Southern France<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy-france-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}