Yesterday we visited Sarlat-la-Caneda, which is like a town out of a storybook. Film makers like to use Sarlat to shoot films set in the Middle Ages. Today we spent time walking in the medieval section of Perigueux, only some 15 miles from where we are staying. *****Notes: 1) President Sarkozy's UMB Party got a comfortable majority in yesterday's parliamentary elections, which should make some economic reform possible--under protest and strikes I would expect. 2) Tomorrow we leave for Spain and then Portugal. For the first part of the drive, we plan to follow the French [Pilgrimage] Route to Santiago de Compostela. 3) This afternoon we say good-bye to Le Cyber in Brantome, called the Venice of the Perigord. Hopefully we will find easy access to the internet over the next week. 4) We have not been able to go canoeing. Too much rain; the rivers are running too high and fast. 5) The Perigord is lush, beautiful and full of historic structures dating back as far as the Romans. It is more than one can take in. It saturates the senses.
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