Le Roque Gageac is a little village in a stunning setting beside the Dordogne river. It had a great feel to it - spacious and relaxing, with a small shopping area, we arrived early and then cooked breakfast and chatted to the Scottish couple in the next campervan while Scott explored the river. Then a walk through the small village for most of us while Scott stayed at the river trying his luck to entice a local fish with salami on half a coke can ring. It would have been a lovely spot to relax for a few days, but with rain forecast and some more must see locations, we headed on once we'd explored the village.

Our next stop was a place called Rocamadour. Only 45 minutes away we had expected this to be a cruise day, but we hadn't accounted for French roads - due to a "deviation" (another closed road) we ended up on a windy narrow road - would have been great on a motorbike; but not fun in a campervan 2.2m wide. While the journey itself was not that long and went through some lovely scenery we were very pleased to reach our destination - only to find two tunnels and an even narrower road leading down a hill to the base of the village with two hairpin bends. It was a relief to make it to the huge parking area. Again the village was well worth the travel, lots of beautiful leather bags, and some paintings as well as some impressive wooden carvings and art work. Plenty to catch our eye but much of if it not practical to purchase and carry around for the rest of our trip.

We drove from Roccamadour to Figeac a a much bigger town to get a head start on a long drive to the Provence region. The campervan parking was right by the town centre and we were tired after a busy day, and with a multitude of restaurants around we thought we'd give dinner out another go.

After an online search we picked one with some good reviews - including one review that said they were really helpful finding tables, to the extent of retrieving you from the bar next door when a table became available. (After our previous attempt at a meal out that sounded ideal). We arrived slightly before they started service for the evening and they said were able to fit us once they opened as long as we were finished before another booking at 8:30pm. We weren't expecting gourmet - as the mains were all advised as served with chips and vegetables of the day and salad, and it certainly wasn't, no sauces or added flavouring just a plain piece of protein - lamb, beef, duck or fish. Thank goodness for the chips, because the vegetables and salad were dreadful. We were a bit suprised - but it wasn't expensive and we hadn't had to cook and it was edible - it definitely was not up to NZ steakhouse standards though.

We opted to have desert at McDonalds instead - a 15min (slightly longer than anticipated) walk. We were lucky as the heavens opened with thunder and lightening just after we got there. We were also pleased that it stopped in time for our walk back.