Gaulejac: A first at Gaulejac: overnight visitors!

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming our first overnight visitors from Canada. We are very grateful to our Canadian friends for being willing and enthusiastic subjects for this test run. They made it easy for us: they were model guests and we certainly enjoyed their company.

While they were here, we allowed ourselves to play tourists and went on a number of excursions along with them, like visiting the Lascaux caves and canoeing down the Dordogne. Lascaux is a remarkable reproduction (as the original cave has been closed to the public for a number of years now, due to serious damage to the paintings caused, over time, by visitors' breathing) and well worth the visit. The canoe ride - in big, goofy-looking though reliable, plastic canoes - was fun; we were told that we were two of nearly five thousand canoes and kayaks on that 25-km stretch of the Dordogne that day.

At the end of their stay here, our visitors were kind enough to share some of their photos. So, another first for the blog: a new photographer's look at the Périgord, including Gaulejac.

The Montfort chateau, as seen from the Dordogne.

La Roque Gageac is probably the most photographed
town on the Dordogne as it has everything one comes to
associate with the area: a riverside town, a cliff
with impressive overhangs and prehistoric dwellings,
traditional barges, and a chateau.

That's Castelnaud, about two thirds of the way on our
25-km river odyssey. (Actually, I'm not sure I can say
"our" as I got off earlier and never completed the trip.
But that's a long story, and I have no photos.)

Beynac, one of the five chateaux on that stretch of the
Dordogne. It's well worth the visit, as is the town below,
if steep cobble stoned streets don't discourage you.

And now for a few photos of Gaulejac, as seen by our visitors ...