We are blessed with many lovely local villages and towns. In this blog, little by little, I will be adding suggested day trips around the area. The local villages often have night markets & fairs in the summer (flyers can be found while you’re picking up the morning’s croissants at our local baker). Good link: https://www.visit-dordogne-valley.co.uk And don’t miss the famous Unesco world heritage town of St Emilion (just 20mins away), or our next door villages of Pessac sur

The Pessac sur Dordogne canoe club also rents bicycles and can deliver! And they have maps of good routes. ​Call on +33 (06) 10 37 74 20 Email: canoevtt@free.fr

Eleanor of Aquitaine is considered by many to have been the most powerful and enlightened woman of her age, if not the entire medieval era. She is pivotal to the history of our region. She was born in 1122. Her father was William, the tenth Duke of Aquitaine, and her mother Aenor of Chatellerault. In Aquitaine women had liberties rarely found elsewhere in Europe and they mixed freely with men. Her personality, as she grew older, no doubt owed a lot to this. Her grandfather