Testing The Angles in Angles sur L'Anglin.

BEYNAC-ET-CAZENAC.

It might be boring but it provides everything that we need except electricity. Rosie is up at 7am to put a load of washing into the on-site laundrette. Washing and drying costs 7 euro. The supermarket opens at 9 for croissants, provisions for the night and the use of the toilet. Oh, and a cash machine. The garage next door provides fuel and free water.

Our journey continues south towards the Dourdogne. I take the wrong turn in the cutely named Angles sur l'Anglin. The corners are so tight and not helped by the post car parked on a blind bend. Still, after much cursing and reversing, we're back on track.

Drive through Limogues which boasts of pottery, none seen, trolley buses and not much else.

On to Montignac for the Grotte de Lasceux. Cave paintings were discovered in 1940 dating back 20,000. We were not sure if we were seeing the real thing until, towards the end, the guide explained that the government closed the real ones to avoid further damage. The ones we can see have been painstakingly recreated.

As you can see, queues for the tour are non existent at this time of the year.

Move on to a site at Beynac-et-Cazenac. Situated on the river Dourdogne, the village boasts an imposing Chateau and several bars and restaurants. It would have been churlish not to have a beer, wouldn't it?