Sarlat

Today we drove to Sarlat, which is a medieval town in the Dordogne. It took about five hours to drive, and there were lots of cool things to look at along the way, including fields and fields of sunflowers. I took only a few photos because either it was raining or it was raining.

As we drove south, we hit granite hills, much like home in NC. At Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, you start to see houses built against and into the cliffs.

We got to Sarlat and followed directions to out place, the Côte de Jardin. When we got to the "turn right and your destination will be on the left," here is what we saw (without the arrow that points to where we would have to go):

So that was a big "no" from Driver Dan.

Off we went to try to find another way around, in a city chock-full of one-way streets. We finally found a parking lot that abuts the property, and from the lot, the "street" looks like this:

Looks like all of the room in the world. But it's not.

A photo of our room, which seems pretty old...

We went inside the ramparts and walked the old (medieval) city. It's full of shops, cafes, and restaurants as well as hotels and private residences. Dan, of course, took a ton of photos. I'm sure that he will do a post later.