Month: July 2021

I suspect a bit of this may be happening later today 😉 Happy birthday son!

Far out …

No trip to Perigord is complete without a visit to see the (replica) parietal wall paintings at Lascaux dating back to the Magdalenian era some 20,000 years ago i.e. about 15,000 years before the Egyptians figured out how to build pyramids and long before the Chinese worked out how to eat with two bamboo sticks. Artistic composition, IMHO, hasn’t progressed much since 😉

Our final chateau-hopping day brought us to the rather underwhelming Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle … but we finished literally on a high at Chateau de Beynac after a challenging hike passing some very charming houses and courtyards

One of the prettiest villages in the area especially when seen from a gabares which once transported goods to and from Bordeaux on the temperamental Dordogne … and another climb to the troglodyte fort for some stunning views

Our penitence after excessive nomming was the 216 step climb (not on knees, thankfully) to see the Black Madonna

We stumbled upon the lush garden terrace of Le Presidial last night and managed to tick off 3 out of 4 things Perigord is famous for: duck, foie gras and walnuts … on the hunt today for the final item … truffles 😉

We drove over 3.5 hours to see this guy … and he didn’t even bother to wave back 😉

Thinking especially of M Buffet who is feeling a bit under the weather at the moment …

Migrating web services onto Docker containers which will now be running on my shiny new M1 powered Mac Mini …