Saturday morning, we left for Piégut-Pluvier to go pick up the pastries that Agnès had ordered for dessert. Mille feuilles, for Jacques and Dominique and gateau aux trois chocolats for Agnès and I. Jacques was happy because this was his first traditional mille feuilles that he’s had since arriving in France. They are very hard to find, now many places do not make them with the flaky pastry but with a cracker type base. This one was what he has been looking for the last 3 weeks. After putting these in a cooler in the trunk of the car we walked to the donjon du Chateau de Piégut (defensive watch tower). We climbed the steps that took us to the base of the dungeon.
We stopped to look at many castles such as the Chateau de Brie and the Château Châlus-Chabrol where Richard the lionhearted was hit by an arrow that eventually killed him 10 days later in the year 1199. It gives you an idea of how old some of these castles are. Some have only ruins, but some are still intact and inhabited. One of my favorite ones was of Chateau fort de Montbrun where the lake or river in front was so calm that you could see the reflection in the water. But the most impressive is the chateau de Rochechouart next to the crater formed by the meteorite.
We also saw was the oldest house in Tamagnon, which was built in 1603.
We finished our day by walking a short way on ‘’la voie verte’’ while collecting 3 more caches giving us a total of 29 caches found while visiting Agnès and Dominique.
We will go to bed early after getting our suitcases ready for our next adventure in Toulouse tomorrow.
Agnès and Dominique treated us as royalty during our visit. They served us a variety of local specialties as well as showing us everything there was to see nearby as well as in other communities giving us another perspective of life in rural France.
Are Agnès and Dominique geocachers also?
ReplyDeleteNo, but they used the geocaching site to help us in finding caches.
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