It was a bright sunny morning again and we thought we would take a trip around the area to discover our new surroundings, although we have been coming to the LOT area of France for many years we have tended not to venture North of our previous camp site and so today we would attempt to rectify that.
We left the site mid morning and already it was beginning to get quite warm and the car temperature was showing 28 degrees centigrade. We stopped in Carlucet Village to take a quick photo, but will return here when we can walk from the camp site, and headed off towards the town of Gramat which was pretty much closed, On Mondays they tend to shut up shop if their insufficient visitors or local spending money available and so we walked around the town for a while and took a few photos and by this time it was close to midday and we needed to get some lunchtime food and found a little supermarket and purchased our vitttels for the day. On studying the map we noticed there was a good route round some of the known 'prettiest villages in France' and we therefore decided to visit them. We drove through country lanes and then after a while we saw the sign for the first place we were to visit called Autoire and also a sign for a view point but Noel could not see much point in stopping as there was no obvious view. However as we went round the corner and there was this amazing view and of course nowhere to turn around and so we will return another day. We arrived in Autoire which no doubt is picture perfect as some of our photos will show.
After a look round we found a car park overlooking the valley and had our lunch. Our drive then took us to the next town called Loubressac which is perched on the top of a hill and also very pretty and so more photos were taken. By this time the temperature was reaching around 32 degrees Centigrade and getting a little warm for walking around towns and up hills and so we retired to the car and turned on the air-conditioning and soon after we both felt more comfortable. A slow drive back to camp took us through several other villages, but not as attractive as those mentioned earlier , and we got back and immediately dived in to the beautiful swimming pool which was even at the right temperature for Jennifer to enjoy.
We cooked up some pork steaks and had those with a nice salad and then headed down to the bar for Noel to do some emails and update Blogs and photos. There were about eight people in the bar including us and it was a very nice evening and we also started talking about some noisy campers (British I'm afraid) whom we all think should be shot. They seem completely unable to communicate amongst themselves except by shouting at each other and it reminds me very much of the Hong Kong Chinese and those Yanks who live in New York, where the background noise is so high. they shout without realising what they are doing. If it continues then I will call Gordon Brown and ask him to sort it out as at least he would have done something useful in his life.
We got back to the caravan around 11 pm and hit the sack and it was still quite warm.
