11 March 2012
Today, friends arrived with a surprise assortment of spring box plants for our temporary garden. In addition, one of our friends, kindly lent us a garden fork and donated some flower pots for our plantings.
They drove us thru the scenic countryside and beautiful villages with fantastic vistas to the Perigord Noir / Dordogne Valley
Gourdon is situated in the Lot Valley but is very near the Dordogne border; an area that we have never previously visited.
We arrived at our first destination in Beynac….a charming restaurant that was very familiar to one of our friends.
The restaurant was warm and inviting, company delightful and food was absolutely delicious and great value for four courses.
The server brought a tureen of piping hot Mushroom soup to the table and the basket of bread.
Followed by the next courses:
Starters: choice of smoked salmon & salad or a traditional “Quercy” salad with “gesiers”.
Dessert: choices were plentiful, Dark Chocolate Ganache with oranges; Tart Tatin (apple pie) and a Nougat Ice Cream with raspberry coulis.
Our taste buds were tantalized, but the salmon was the highlight.
Absolutely delicious!
From Beynac, we took a different route home and stopped quickly to look up at a village built in the cliffs (not sure of the name but think it was La Roque- Gageac, (where starting in April you can also take a boat tour along the river- a must do activity) then continued on to the village of Domme.
We leisurely wandered the streets of Domme, and went “Wow!”
Words can not express the magnificence of these villages.
There are five villages within an hour of each other that have been designated as one of “Les plus Beaux Villages de France de la Vallee Dordogne” (the most beautiful villages of France in the Valley of the Dordogne ).
Thank you to our friends for a wonderful day!
You are making us thirsty and hungry; thanks for the update. Mom is enjoying too! love k/m
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