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| Chateau de Beynac, rising from the morning river mists |
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| Passing by the parc archaeologique; apparently leftovers from the set of a movie about Joan of Arc; I believe some episodes of F Troop may have been shot here as well |
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| Still en route, this is the garage concealing that Ferrari 250 GTO you've been dreaming about finding...the present owner has no interest in it--something about a divorce--says you can have it if you can get it out of the garage, and, with a quick jump-start, you are on the road, shifting into 5th... |
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| Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa...oops...so here we are at the castle |
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| Siege view of Chateau de Beynac |
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| Main gate |
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| People were much shorter in the Middle Ages |
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| The Dordogne from Chateau de Beynac...Castelnaud and Marqueyssac beyond (?) |
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| Chateau yet to be identified |
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| Vicki ponders what an appropriate down payment might be |
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| In the village, the Pottery Barn |
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| Walking down to the river-level village of Beynac-et- Cazenac (where scenes from Chocolat, indeed starring Johnny Depp, among others, were shot), we pass by the Causerie Medievale; none of the French-type personnes we encounter can tell us what causerie means; the nice lady at the Office of Tourisme (where we bought some Medieval toys for Penelope) later informs us it is a society of Medieval re-enactors |
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| The roads between the village below and the chateau are among the most challenging we have seen; people do live up here, and drive |
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| Roofers' nightmare |
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| People were much shorter in the Middle Ages |
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| Precisely...we've skipped far more than we've seen; but then we had seen a lot of it '89 |
1 comment:
Ahhh. Chocolat is one of my favorite movies. We made a trek to all of the French towns where the movie was filmed, only to later find out that most of it was filmed in England!
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