Next day, June 23rd, we were off again, to the east, to see more le plus beaux villages, despite severe weather warnings. As the clouds gathered, we stopped for a bit at Gignac, to look at its parish church. Then we hunkered down in an underpass, avoiding potential hail. As the storm passed, we drove on to Turenne, only to find the road barred by a downed tree. The town's road crew was already out with a chain saw--alas, ours is in our camper in the US--and cleared the way in a few minutes. We looked at Turenne from a distance, in the rain, and then drove on.
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| Parish church at Gigeac; oops, sort of a distorted view |
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Interior; pretty much everything of this vintage and region is
Romanesque |
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| View from the parking lot |
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| Watching the storm clouds brew |
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| Paris is more beautiful in the rain; not so Dordogne in a gale |
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| It wasn't a big tree |
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| But big enough to ground even the tourist train |
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The chain-saw guy and his helper got it all cleaned
up in minutes |
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| In Turenne's suburbs |
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| It was still raining, so we decided to save Turenne for next time |
1 comment:
The hillside villages are so picturesque.
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