Sarlat

Spent the morning wandering around the busy streets of medieval Sarlat. It was market day and the place was full of both tourists and locals. Sarlat was a town I remembered from 27 years ago for it's amazing medieval feeling (this was where the film "Chocolat" was filmed. Indeed it still is an amazing medieval town, but it's been cleaned up and restored and filled with tourist restaurants - so a lot of the atmosphere has been lost.

In the afternoon we headed out to a small neighbouring village called Beynac - to try to find some rural atmosphere along the Dordogne river, and found it! We had a lovely walk along the banks of the river with conoeists gliding past, chateaux against the skyline, old bridges - just beautiful.

Back to Sarlat to meet the Verweys in dinner in town - at a bistro in the square where we had steak, lamb and duck on sizzle rocks, then glaces - all going well until suddenly Dick has a major allergic reaction to something. Without going into all the details, he became very unwell and we think the epipen probably saved his life. It ended up an epic and emotional evening - but he came through fine.