Geert's Place

Day 2: Bergerac & Hanging Gardens of Vézac
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Today it was slightly less hot than yesterday – still 35°C at some points though .. We went into the town of Bergerac, went to the Tourism Office and asked for a map. As nice little tourists, we followed the route which they gave us.

This took us thru the old city part and delivered some quite good picture material. We went for a boat trip on the Dordogne river, which took about an hour. We also visited the Maison des Vins for a wine tasting.

At that moment we took a break because of the heat and around 6 we drove off to Vézac, a small town about 70km from Bergerac, to visit the famous Hanging Gardens of Marqueyssac. This was quite amazing because every Thursday evening, they enlighten the paths with a massive amount of candles.

To close off this day, we stopped in a very small village called Brenac, which holds a medieval castle built in the 12th century. Funny (old) waitress messed up our order – I ordered a half liter of Kronembourg and ended up with a normal beer, Kurt ordered a pina colada and had to wait for about 45 minutes. Guess they still needed to import the pineapples…