Monday, May 23, 2011

From England with love

While Nancy is checking things out on her own at Gaulejac, I'm doing some virtual traveling, imagining that I'm there with her.

Browsing away on this Holiday Monday, I discovered another recent media piece on the Dordogne. This time, an article from the online edition of The Mail - an English newspaper. Of course, there is nothing surprising about the region receiving attention from the folks across the Channel (which, by the way, on this side of the Atlantic is usually referrd to, quite rightly, as being neither English nor French, but simply "the Channel").

More than any other group, our Brit cousins have loved and visited "Dordogneshire" again and again. For centuries, in fact. Today, many still buy land, settle and integrate there. Which is an improvement on the approach their ancestors used to take, I suppose, although if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have many of the beautiful castles that pepper the landscape to this day.

To read that online Mail article, click "France holidays: Chateaux, cheese and canoeing down the Dordogne river" for a modern English perspective on all there is to love about the region - including what Nancy is probably enjoying right now ... 
Foie gras (pronounce "fwah grah")
As to visitors from much earlier times and their lasting influence on the region, click here for another interesting find from the English online media or, for a more detailed historical account, check out the Wikipedia entry on Dordogne's most famous resident ever.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's seal