Anyone who knows how detailed my travel plans are will understand that last night's choice of restaurant did not appear to be open - Ross called - the man said closed for 6 months! Plan B - another one and this is how it looked from the outside.
I am now dying for burger, fries, salmon, lettuce salad! Not to be - almost all restaurants have "menus" for a fixed price for 3, 4, 5 courses - I got the 3 course one for 28Euros (approx $37). My entree was duck breast cooked medium, boiled potatoes and green beans. It was good but I have never been a big fan of duck or goose. When I was little and since my maternal grandparents were English for our Christmas holiday we always had the Christmas goose (along with the Schultz turkey) and plum pudding (along with the Schultz pumpkin pie)
Headed out around 9am for a drive this morning - I wanted to see the Elevage d'Ois - or force feeding of ducks and geese to make fois gras (fatty liver). (brochure says the "gavage (force feeding) is traditional and stress free and all their food is pesticide free and grown on the property). Ois is French for goose and canard is French for duck. I know there is a lot of controversy over foie gras and this procedure. So we drive and drive and find it but we are not able to see this done. The cute couple tried to tell us something and she was pointing at her watch and shaking her head and smiling. So off we drove past the bunch of pretty geese!!!
The cute old guy on the property was driving this car. Niece Sara would love the car but not the duck stuff as she is vegetarian!!
On to next visit Le Jardins de Marqueyssac "picturesque gardens offer more than six kilometres of shaded paths....130 meters above the Dordogne River...exceptional views. We had lunch at the Salon d tea overlooking beautiful views of places we had already been including the riverboat ride. I had rhubarb tart with ice cream and coffee - good lunch for a sweet lover!
This was our lunch companion wandering around the property.
Sarlat's mascot is the salamander and we saw a lot of the cute little things.
So this is called the "Pope's Seat", carved out of stone for an Italian guy, the bishop of Mantua, who was invited here to visit and they carved this stone seat for him for a place to pray. His name was Guisseppe Sarto and lived from 1835-1914 and became the 257th Pope of the Catholic church from 1903-1914. Pope Pius X..
The Pope's view!
Tomorrow morning we leave Sarlat, drop off this cute little Polo rental car and walk a bit uphill with our bags to the train station heading to Bordeaux. We think we found a restaurant tonight that has fish!!!...we'll see.
On politics: Missed the debate but I can't say I'm sorry about that. This is a cut and paste from what happens in France and many other countries.
"Media coverage during campaigns is tightly regulated. Each and every candidate, ranging from those supported by the more extreme parties to the main two candidates, must be allocated the same amount of media attention, and neither the candidate nor groups of his or her supporters are allowed to buy commercial advertising space to promote their candidate. Officially, the campaign begins only two weeks before the first round of the election, after which the top two candidates will have another two weeks to prepare for the run-off. During this period, the candidates are given access to public radio and television by the state. Of course, the presidential campaign begins long before the start of the official campaign, but it still pales in comparison to the long and vigorous campaigning in the U.S."
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