Join me for 7 days and 6 nights in the heart of Le Périgord. We will be welcomed by Diane & Eric Athoniessen at their Chateau Ladausse for gastronomic meals, elegant accommodations, swimming, and of course a river of local wine.

Join me for 7 days and 6 nights in the heart of Le Périgord. We will be welcomed by Diane & Eric Athoniessen at their Chateau Ladausse for gastronomic meals, elegant accommodations, swimming, and of course a river of local wine.

It’s a bit of a shlep from Paris but well worth it! We grabbed a late Sunday morning TGV from the Gare Montparnasse to Bordeaux and then a local train to Bergerac where we were met by our Paris friends, Eric and Diane Anthonissen, for a quick ride to the 18th century Chateau Ladausse in Monflanquin, their new home.

Join me for 4 days and 3 nights in the heart of Le Périgord. We will be welcomed by Diane & Eric Athoniessen at their Chateau Ladausse for gastronomic meals, elegant accommodations, swimming, and of course a river of local wine.

Our first stop was a quick visit to Sarlat,  a Gallo- Roman town that became a prosperous city at the end of the VIII century under the reign of Pepin le Bref and Charlemagne when the Benedictines established a monastery there, but our destination was the market.

It’s a bit of a shlep from Paris but well worth it! We grabbed a late Sunday morning TGV from the Gare Montparnasse to Bordeaux and then a local train to Bergerac where we were met by our Paris friends, Eric and Diane Anthonissen, for a quick ride to the 18th century Chateau Ladausse in Monflanquin, their new home.

It was Tuesday and it’s been market day  every Tuesday since 1346 (and no I don’t know which Tuesday) in the village of Le Bugue,  the inspiration for the fictional St. Denis in Walker’s Bruno, Chief of Police novels and parking was a challenge. But we made it just in time for our meeting with Martin at the Patisserie Cauet (Fauquet’s in the books) that is a gathering place for locals and the “British” locals who so favor the region