During the previous few days we have planning the best route to take from our Hotel to the Kyriad Hotel in Limoges as we wished to avoid Motorways and Toll roads and some of the smaller roads are much nicer to travel on. We looked at the map and also Tom Tom and Google Maps and decided that the best way was to use the old A 20 which is now the N820 which is the old main route south to Cahors and beyond.
So after and early morning start we put the key in to reception and chatted to the owner about next year and please book direct, and the headed off in to town ? to have a croissant and tea at the Boulangerie and then on to Proxi Store to by some water to cover us for the next few days. We went thro lots of little villages going north away from the Lot Valley until we hit the N820 which was great road to travel on as it was not crowded, had great views and a good road surface. Unfortunately something, perhaps the tea water gave Noel a few challenges and trying to find a public loo in France is just as difficult as in UK. So loading up on all sorts of pill was able to work his thro the problem and the after having overcome same we cam across a brand newish loo , but that's life. For lunch we stopped at a wayside parking area which overlooked a Chateau whose name I cannot remember and then continued on to Limoges where we were stunned by to total lack of traffic and considering it was Friday afternoon could not believe how little amount of cars there were.
We arrived a the Kyriad Hotel in Ester , Limoges and checked in to this quite new hotel and the had a rest before heading off to the local restaurant serving pub food where we had a pint of Budweiser beer and fish and chips. Then back to the Hotel for some blogging and to watch the final part of the Prince Andrew three part’er.
En-route when passing thro the various little towns we had noticed that the name of the town signboard were upside down and we could not understand why but looked it u and it appears the reason is that |French Farmers are saying they are having a tough time and protesting vi upside town name boards.
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Tomorrow we go to the River Sarthe for two nights and with a local boat trip booked for the Sunday afternoon, should be good.
