Chateau de la Merde

A quick post before the weekend on probably the worst chateau we visited on our little trip.

As we kept driving down the into the valley where Nant was, especially in the afternoon sun, we could see what appeared to either be a rock formation or a little chateau …

Aiguillette de canard

Hélène decided the other night to make a very 'Perigourdin' meal the other night. Perigord is an 'area' in France, but not a Region nor a Department. Aquitaine is the Region around here, covering four departments of which the Dordogne is one. Think of Perigord sort …

New toy

New toy-

They sent the wrong adapter, had it wrong on their site, so I am hoping to get a replacement for it in the not too distant future.

They also somehow screwed up the shipping. I paid them $60 to get it shipped here, and then UPS wanted another 93 Euros …

Milking sheep

On our last day in Nant we scheduled a little visit to the sheep farm at our campsite, which was just at the other end of the field right behind our tent. We were told to arrive at 6 am (ugh) so its little wonder that we kept putting it off until the last …

Diversion

So I've been sorting through some old photos recently, after receiving a box from LA with some much needed CDs and DVD's (Thanks, THM!). Came across this one and thought I would share.

I went to South America a few years back and spent a week in Peru. I hit Machu …

Coeur de Boeuf

Timely, based on my last post with the tomato thing and because I haven't seen these at the weekly market lately. But Hélène has a friend at work with a garden so we were the recipients of a load of tomatos the other day. One was a Coeur de Boeuf, or beef …

Market at St. Jean de Bruel

St. Jean de Bruel is the next little village over from Nant, and they had their little market on Thursday so we headed over to check it out. Nothing overly spectacular about St. Jean de Bruel itself although there were a couple of interesting things and a couple of …

Campsite

Again, credit goes to Hélène for finding this place. I haven't been much of a camper in my life, and thats really weird because when I was a kid we did a VW bus through Europe thing, camping all along the way, and my stepdad once took me and my brother to Glenrose in …

Excellent little piece about that Million Little Pieces guy

Honestly, this kind of thing is exactly why I feel like I am completely withdrawing from society. 'The way the world works' has gotten me so down that sometimes I feel like the only thing I can do is flatly refuse to participate.

That doesn't make me any less of a …

Too soon?

Gotta love the French. Here is a still from an ad that ran earlier this year for some French treehuggers-

To read the accompanying article, click here

Cantobre

Cantobre is one of the (many) little villages in the Gorge de la Dourbie, but its one of the coolest. The first time we saw it, we were driving from Nant to Millau on the road that runs through the Gorge, and as soon as we saw it, we knew we had to go back and visit at …

Why the 21st century is making you miserable

Guy has some good points- Clickity

Also, its old but check out his monkey sphere article; its pretty insightful as well.

Nant

This set is from Nant, where we camped. I have to hand it to Hélène for finding this place. As we were continuing our drive past Millau it seemed like we were getting farther and farther away from where stuff was, but this place was actually perfect.

To get to …

Thanks, Fake Steve!

Be Afraid

Montpellier-le-Vieux

One of our first days in Aveyron we visited Montpellier-le-vieux (Montpellier the old) on the Causse Noir. The Grandes Causses are a group of limestone plateaus in the region, and if I remember my tourist brochure correctly, they were created about between 200 and 100 …

Millau

Millau- A pretty cool place I had never heard of. Which is a little surprising, actually.

Millau is the big city (same population as Bergerac, about 30k) near the one of the big national parks in France, the Cevannes. The Cevannes is a bit further east of where we …

Fantazio and dOMb

Both of these bands rocked. First up is Fantazio, who was the headliner on Saturday night-

These guys had a sort of Rev. Horton Heat feel, but thats mostly because of the standup bass

Turns out this guy is the main guy, in fact. He was really working …