Our LAST DAY IN LOT !

Friday 25^th Day in Lot – 28 degrees in the shade!

Today is our last touring day in the Lot District and the weather has behaved itself and is glorious. Tomorrow we have to pack and drive back to Toulouse, return our hire car and fly to Paris!  We spent our last day in the Correze region just a few kilometres north of the Lot to take in just a few more ancient villages which are also on the list of France’s most beautiful some more touristy than others.

We started off visiting Curemonte which has three churches and three chateaus with a fortified manor house and an old covered market hall. We have visited so many villages now that one is just as beautiful as the other and it is getting hard to remember them so lucky I have been diligent and doing a daily blog so when we get home we can revisit them again!

After a short stop in Curemonet we drove onto a town called Meyssac which has a market twice a week and is more of a working town.  We bought so much nice fresh fruit including apricots cherries, nectarines, mandarins and they were all so juicy, Gary didn’t know which ones to eat first! For a bit of a laugh we decided to look at a cottage that was in period style and empty so the real estate agent didn’t mind showing us through it!  It was a renovator’s delight if you had a lot of spare cash but it was walking distance from town and right next door another one of France’s prettiest villages. It was called Collenges La-Rouge and all the bricks are red sandstone like the cottage we looked at. The cottage for sale was originally a mill in the 17 century and it looked like a mini-museum in itself with its own tower and another small dwelling on it for the caretakers! One can only dream……………… It was advertised for 175,000 Euros and add another 100,000 to make it livable.

Our last stop for the day was a town called Turenne and it is perched high on a hill overlooking all the Lot, Correze, Dordogne and Cantal regions. It had a fantastic fortified castle called Chateau de Turenne and it was built in the 13 - 14^th Century. It was so well manicured with great exhibits including “la Salle des Gardens” and it had two clock towers, the higher one only 64 uneven steps to reach the top where you could see a panoramic view. We are so used to climbing uneven steps by now! We had a soft drink after climbing back down from the tower to the village level before driving home to think about packing for tomorrow.  Before we left we bought some nice mustard from this region. They add wallnuts, truffles, herbs and all sorts of flavours and I can’t wait to try it with some beautiful cheese, a baguette and a glass of red wine! Gary has his rice crackers and white wine so he is not missing out too much!

I hope we can get internet today as yesterday it was not available. So until Paris, I hope you are all as well and happy as we are, love Chel and Gary xx

The photos will have to wait as it is taking too long and the mosquitoes have come to get me! xx

 Finally the photos.

Curemonte and towers that people live in today

My knight in shining armour - The real one not the statue!

The views over Curemonte

 The castle in Turenne - life13-14th Century

 This was the small house on the real estate market - our fantasy of living in our own Castle

Collenges La -Rouge 

 Turenne

More stunning views!