It’s a very wet morning; however this clears by lunchtime to a sunny 25C day. We are heading west to Dordogne. We have four days to arrive at our villa in Spain so we are pacing our journey south through France.
The scenery today is a complete contrast to yesterday’s rolling fields. We travel through the province of Auvergne renowned for its chain of 80 volcanoes. As this would suggest it is a drive through beautiful mountains with deep gorges, spanned by enormously high bridges. The gorges are covered thickly by trees in their autumn colours. Gorgeous! Ws stopped at the ancient stone village Terrasson, parts of which were built in 1177AD. It is magnificent, built on a cliff face overlooking a little river over which the Pont du Terrasson provides a walkway. We have taken the motorway through the mountains and our little diesel Citroen hums along at the 130km speed limit. The roads in France are wonderful. The total for tolls today thought, has been 20 euro ($30.15 AUD) however, we figure we would have saved at least an amount of that in fuel had we had to wind up through the mountains. We found a nice little motel for the night and did a quick change so we could have some dinner and attend the meeting in Riberac. The meeting is in French with a second school in English and so there are some brother and sisters there who understand us. Lovely!
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