Bergerac

It wasn’t until we were actually back in France that we began to think about where we wanted to visit. Originally we thought we would head back to the Pyrenees to a campsite we found on a previous trip 5 years ago. That was before we spent longer in Spain than we had planned and ultimately longer in Portugal.


Our eagerness to leave the Spanish Basque country brought us further north on the west coast than we had originally planned as well.

All well and good because we found that we really liked Les Landes, and it’s people, and will certainly be visiting it again for future holidays.

While in Les Landes region we changed our minds several times before settling on the places we wanted to visit before the summer holidays in Montignac. Cahors had always been on our itinary, and having spent a couple of summers when the boys were younger near Sarlat we thought we’d pretty much done ‘The Dordogne’. So once we’d left St. Emilion we headed to camp sites both east and west of Cahors to visit ‘The Lot Valley’ and find all its treasures.

The Dordogne and the Lot rivers are much closer together than I realised and the territory between them is filled with Bastide towns and villages which are enchanting. It is quite easy to drive the distance between the two rivers which is only 40/50 kms.

While staying on the campsite to the west of Cahors we had a lot of rain…and I mean a lot of rain. So apart from holding up in the caravan we went driving……

It was while we were out driving to Ville-Neuve-sur-Lot (which we were both disappointed with) that we thought about going back to the Dordogne to spend the day in Bergerac.

We have only ever driven through Bergerac before and so many people have told us what a lovely town it is. This was our chance to visit it at our leisure.

Below are some of the photo’s we took which don’t capture the specialness of the ‘old town’, but do give you an idea of what an amazing place it is.

Here I am posing in front of Cyrano!

The bells on this church have their own balcony for servicing!

As you will see from the last photo, the Dordogne river was flooded so there weren’t any boats running to give tours along the river, but it didn’t prevent us from enjoying the character of the place.