Today we visit the small town of Rocamadour the home of the Black Madonna. A nine o'clock pick up and we're on our way. It take an hour to get there. Rocamadour already enjoyed European fame as evidenced by the 12th-century book Livre des Miracles[8] written by a monk from the sanctuary and received many pilgrims. In 1159, Henry II of England, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine, came to Rocamadour to thank the Virgin for her healing.In 1166, wanting to bury a resid...

We leave Bordeaux for Sarlat by train ,or should I say cattle train because everyone is packed into a three carriages with push bikes, suit cases , and to many people for the 2 an a half hour trip. We eventually after but now all the taxis are busy ,but with luck a mini bus arrives and takes us into town. This is a medieval village dating back to 800s and this whole area is the same. We settle in ,then off we go to explore this lovely old town. Day 2 Shirley an...

Today we are going to explore in a different way ,in a toy train. The train is taking us throughh the city area pointing out the historic sites and the local interest point . The tour itself wil last for 45 minutes. We will list to an auto guide as we travel along through tiny alleys and narrow street . For us this a totally new way of seeing th site of such old and historic town., we enjoyed it immensely. It's now close to 12, time for lunch so we stop in at ...

Good night sleep ,we are fresh and ready to explore Bordeaux . A short walk to the city centre trying to find a travel info place ,there is not one so I walked into a shop told them I was lost ,needed help to find one ,out came her phone showed me and like a blood hound I'm off with Shirley in tow and low and behold there it is just anther five minutes of walking From here Shirley take over the tour guide side of thing and within minutes her and the tourist inf...

The three days in Paris have come to an end and it now our tour of Bordeaux. The bus leave for train station at 11:00, we get on flash our credit card and the driver says ,oh no no credit card,only cash, we have no cash . He turns out to be really good and let's us ride for free. Our train arrives ,we get on the line ,get to the gate ,no no not your train wrong number,you look at board ,we ask someone else hall 1 line 5 is right open our phones Shirley's pas wor...