Embedded Files
Today we took a gorgeous route to Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (SCLP here after) and faced our first two big climbs (us big, not Giro or Dirty Kanza big).
We saw some man-made...
...and natural wonders along the way.
At the end of a big climb and a long, twisty downhill, we popped out of the trees to see our first views of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie
Another jaw dropping medieval village clinging to a hillside, causing us to remember how dangerous (build your town in an inaccessible place instead of a nice spot along the river) and generally miserable (imagine hand hauling, cutting and laying all of those stones...) an era it must have been, and how lucky we are that they kept at it!
SCLP is completely adorable from its "low gate" to the tippy top of it's ruined castle. We checked into our also adorable gite (self-catered apartment France style), Charme et jardin cœur St Cirq.
We had our picnic, and set off to wander the town. This is the first place that we've been that feels reay touristy - hoards of day trippers in inappropriate footwear, cars squeezing past each other on the small mountain road, and thundering groups of Harley riders. (I had forgotten the French love of the large American motorcycle and the fashon that goes with it!) We strolled around oohing and gaping too. I'll try not to post even a fraction of the hundreds of pictures we took, but here are a few.
After exhausting ourselves on the cobbled hills and stone steps that run through SCLP, I can only assume that this is a bad civil servant joke
We found one place for sale. Tempting until you find out that only eleven souls overwinter here!
Then back to the apartment to discover... our first flat of the trip. My bike, rear wheel of course!
Later we trotted out for an unremarkable and unphotogenic French fixed menu at Restaurant Bar Lapopie. Tomorrow we rest in SCLP and its environs.
Page updated
Report abuse