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I spent quite a long time trying to figure out this bathroom sign and I got nowhere but I’m open to your interpretations. This was the sign for a single entry/single sink area bathroom. Next to the sink, there was a single stall for women and then, in a cubby area off to the left […]

Now that I understand enough about wine to want to drop some egg whites into Ron’s Costco Merlot, I’ve moved my keen attention skills to caves and charming villages. We have now seen a total of three caves, all featuring art from between 17,000 and 25,000 years ago. Recall that we started at Rouffignac, where […]

The Cave of Rouffignac is the real deal of a cave. It sits 23 miles outside of Sarlat in a quiet, wooded area. It was one of those places I arrived with little information and few expectations. OMG it is amazing. It’s a cave that was inhabited?explored? by Cro-Magnon people 17,000 years ago. The cave […]

Today we went to two different Medoc region wineries. We started at Chateau Baudan and we finished off our day at Chateau Kirwan, which is pictured above. It was funny to get to compare and contrast these two places in a single day. Baudan is clearly the modest upstart, bottling wine for “bargain” shoppers, I […]