France Trip 2, Part 2

After Paris we had another couple of days driving down south through the Loire  valley and other places. It was all nice driving, often we stopped to see a chateau,eat by a lake, or just admire the scenery, which suited me. For our food we would stop into a boulangerie (bakers) or a big super market. We didn’t take our trangia stove so our food was cold. Which was OK but it did get very repetitive, almost every meal consisted of baguette, butter, cheese, nectarine, salads and occasionally some cold meat. But I survived.

The next big destination in our journey was the Lascaux caves which are caves full of 30000 year old caveman paintings. Unfortunately you can't see the real caves because of preservative reasons but you can have a tour around an exact replica. This is what we decided to do. The tour was fascinating, I learnt lots of interesting things, for example because the paintings in the caves were painted in paints made only from minerals which is very rare they can't date the paintings and the date they gave to them was actually the date of the charcoal that was on the ground (this charcoal was from their prehistoric lanterns).

After the caves we drove on and camped the night amongst wildflowers on some waste-ground near a paddock full of horses. I went and patted them as I am missing my horse lots.We decided that we should go to Remy and Jenny's first because we wanted to catch them before work and school started because in France September is the time the new school year starts!

This is the most common style of art in the caves where the far leg is detached, in flickering light (candle light) they think this horse would have looked like it was moving.

The bull is one of the most common animals painted in the caves.

Also near the caves they have a zoo where you can look at all the closest relations to the animals painted in the caves.

This is a modern fallow deer, the ones caveman hunted where twice as big.

This goat wasn't at the zoo, it was at a place where we stopped at to buy cheese. I put it in because it was funny! :)

The roads we took through Verdon Gorge were absolutely spectacular.

Dad giving me a Geography lesson

A small chateau we stopped at, I couldn't believe it even had a moat.