From the South To the North

Les Eyzies is quite an amazing place. In the evening after the cave, we wandered over to their mideval church. We had actually briefly seen it when we arrived and promptly headed the wrong way out of the train station. We walked back to the train station, then around the other way, looped back onto the road that led to our hotel. At this point we made an unfortunate discovery, the hotel was actually right next to the train station. If we had cut across the tracks and past one building that was cleverly built to hide our hotel, we could have walked there in one minute. Instead it took almost 20 minutes. On the upside, we did not call Les Eyzies Taxi (05.53.06.63.06) which was advertised in the train station parking lot. That would have been embarrassing.



The church, called Le Tayac It was built as a church and a fortress sometime in the 12th century. The front entry, pictured here, faces out on a small country road and towards the rail lines. The church is very plain, as can be seen here, but, in the back, there are windows with decorated tops that resemble celtic knots.


Back of Le Tayac, the church-fortress of Les Eyzies.

After visiting the church we walked along the river back into town for dinner. We ate at this little cafe, I had a delicious tomato and goat cheese salad, followed by pork so tender it just fell apart and creme brûlée for dessert. Jeffy had vegetable soup, steak, and chocolate mousse. The cafe has a lovely terrace you can sit on and for some reason they have no bugs. I thought I saw a bug, but Jeffy told me to look closer, it was actually a miniature humming bird no more than 1/2 an inch big. It was so cute.

The next day, we had to head out on the train, the north and south trains arrive at the same time, so the train station goes from completely dead to vaguely bustling for about 1 hour each day. Before the train, we had time to stop by Abri Pataud (a working archeological dig site where they have already discovered over 6 million artifacts).




If you look closely, you can see the grid layer out under the protective roof. It was so cool!

Just after noon we jumped on the train, and started north on out 6 hour train ride... Read, read, snooze, read, repeat...

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Location:Somewhere between Paris and Bayeux