Propane or Methane!

Once we got going we continued to try to solve the French gas connection problem.  We had decided to go to a site with electricity tonight so that we could conserve our meagre gas supplies.  We called at a supermarket garage and asked a member of staff and all he could do was suggest a bigger supermarket in the next big town.  We followed his advice and tried a Hyper U but they had almost nothing in the gas supply department.  I can generally generate more gas on my own than they in store, especially since Janice is force feeding me with foie gras that is a speciality in this area. It's normally the ducks that get force fed!

However, we had a breakthrough (I think) because we saw a camper van sales place and we popped in.  The French man took a look and went straight for a new pipe connection.  We unscrewed one of my pipes and connected his.  It should fit the French propane gas bottles and will work with my regulator.  Hurray, but we haven't tested it yet as we haven't passed a garage selling gas since.

We programmed the sat nav for the camping car parking site that has an automated barrier where you pay with a card and get electric and wifi as well as the normal water and waste disposal.  The weather was warmer than usual and as we travelled the colour of the stone buildings became a lovely warm honey shade that made us feel warm too.

We wanted to visit the Sarlat la Caneda area of the Dordogne region because people seem to mention it's a beautiful town but we know it is seriously busy with tourists.  My logic is that October might be a good time to visit when it is a bit quieter than the summer.  Today we actually skirted to the south of the town to get to the site.  After a bit of a country detour we got to the site and hooked up to electricity with pleasure and the site is well placed next to the Dordogne and.close to a pretty village built into the cliff called La Roque Gageac.  We have paid for two nights and decided that we would do a nice bike ride near the river today and tomorrow we will cycle to Sarlat.

This is La Roque Gigeac.

Home for a couple of nights.

A couple of years ago we had a 4 day cycle expedition along part of the Dordogne but we didn't get this far.  The highlights of today's ride was Castelnaud la Chapelle...

The Castel on the hill and the bridge over the river.

But the best was the small ancient town of Domme at the top of a hill overlooking the whole valley.  It is very well preserved and has large parts of its old walls intact.  Apparently the Knights Templars were captured here in the12th century by the French King of the time and placed in a prison in one of the towers of the town.  The long uphill cycle to the town was really worthwhile and the views were great.

Here is the view and....

here's some of the town.

The whole area is beautiful, especially with the autumnal colours of the leaves.  

Oh, and I should mention that Burnley beat Blackburn today, it's always sweet.  I hope some Blackburn fans are reading!

Chicken curry for evening meal, followed by sticky toffee pudding (with prunes, apricots and nuts - who needs propane when we have methane!) made by Wendy V.  Lovely.