Christmas week and I should be in France visiting Papa Blue. However, there’s this thing called Covid which means that travels are temporarily verboten. So, what to do when I need the taste of the Corrèze? Bake a gâteau aux noix of course! Papa Blue lives in proper walnut country, Read More
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Les Grottes de Lacave
Easter Sunday. While the UK was basking in freak heatwave conditions, I was back in France and dodging rain showers. Perfect conditions, then, for a Jules Vernes-esque adventure… The Lot département is blessed with a great number of grottes (natural caves) and gouffres (chasms/abbysses), the most famous being the Gouffre Read More
The Devil’s Bridge & Other Tales from France…
I was back in France last weekend to visit Papa Blue, and, as is now the custom, went in search of a few more historical treasures of the Corrèze and Lot departments. My planned visits (to Argentat and Mercœur) were curtailed by le crachin – persistent mizzly rain that only cleared Read More