From dawn to noon a steady and hard rain precipitated upon us.
Thus, the morning part of the biking turned out to be very very wet.
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| This is how I felt after hours in the rain. |
We slowly worked our way along the Dordogne ...
... and eventually ascended a long and very steep hill ...
to Château des Milandes, the castle once owned by Josephine Baker.
She was an unusual US/French entertainer from 1925 to 1975.
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| Miss Baker's way to fame was a beautiful voice, a great humour and an exotic nudity. |
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| Josephine Baker as the hostess in the castle's dining room. |
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| In Paris in the late 1920's the codex about ethnicity was very 'liberal'. |
After Les Milandes we descended and proceeded in beautiful sunshine along the Dordogne with grand castles and perched villages seemingly everywhere.
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| Château Beynac from the 12th-13th centuries. |
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| Château de Castelnaud. |
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| La Roque-Gageac squeezed between the rocks and the river. |
Today we've seen a lot of beautiful and lush landscape. This region has so much to offer the inhabitants as well as the visitors.
We are now in Sarlat-la-Canéda, and will stay here for two nights. Sarlat has a large and superbly preserved medieval downtown area where we took an evening stroll before going to bed.
