A CYCLE RIDE AND A LUNCHSTOP IN DAGLAN- DORDOGNE COUNTRYSIDE- NOUVELLE- AQUITAINE. VAN TRIP SEPT’23.

A SIMPLE CYCLE RIDE THROUGH THE DORGOGNE, WITH A LOVELY LUNCH TO FINISH!!
The weather is bonkers!! 30 degrees at the end of September, so we take it easy with an early morning cycle ride through the gorgeous Dordogne countryside, with no particular destination.
We arrive at the lovely village of Daglan, quite by chance!
Daglan is a very attractive medieval town situated in the tranquil Ceou Valley
The village has a good number of traditional Dordogne houses built in the typical white limestone of the region. The principal historic monument in the centre of the village is the church of Saint-Martin, which retains its 13th century entrance of carved stone columns.
The village also has a few very nice restaurants- one of which- La Cantina- we spent a lovely time at, devouring their ‘Plat Du Jour’, which made the cycle itself worthwhile for the poached pear in chocolate alone.’
A lovely day out exploring the Dordogne.!!

Well it is scheduled to be another glorious sunny day at the door do today they’re estimating it might be up to 30° so we’re going to take it easy today and just go on a very very easy cycle ride along a uh route vet that is just left

Outside of the campsite um taking it a little bit easy today we’ll see how we go so we are back on the little cycle path that runs from the campsite heading back into Castle Nord um which is straight in front of us as you can see the beautiful shadow on

The hill but when we get into town instead of going into the town itself we’re going to go along the river and turn left and there apparently is a very nice route vet uh cycle route very nice easy route so that’s the plan for today awesome well the plan for this morning

Before lunch anyway before it gets too hot Bernie would argue it’s too hot already he’s good okay so we’re back in the little town with the uh Chateau and we have found the little green of a cycle route here look with little uh cycle pictures

On it so uh we’re going to head down here and have a look let’s go bir’s g already as per usual there we go now it’s supposed to be off the road so hopefully it is yeah lovely oh Bernie wants me to overtake so I will oblige yeah oh over a little Bridge

Pretty Guess it’s this way what what this is kind of it is this is definitely burnard’s kind of cycling that’s just so pretty bubbling stream gorgeous right let’s crack on right these are walnut trees yes because walnuts is a big thing in this region and the um traditional dish in this

Region is walnut tart so this is Walnut Orchard walnut tree orchard I know I’ve got this cycle route um off a lady on the internet I’ll have a look at more of her cycle routs I think it was a lady on the internet she’s got um she’s got a

Website she does a big ring all the way around this area but then this bit if you just want a short route she did it with her 5-year-old son she said that’s enough for him for today just quite funny I thought yeah that’ll be all right for us then there goes bed a

Little Walky for a second rest me bum very pretty on the hill oh yeah just a typical really pretty little French Village look gorgeous wow I got a brand new combine har I’ll give you the K that’s a big b kit down the hill [Applause] wo through the lovely wooden Glenn over the

Stream over the bridge I look there nothing yes a shame the restaurant’s closed for sale I need to go this so I’ve just rolled into this little village and what a surprise it’s absolutely gorgeous look at this wasn’t expecting this at all I was unexpecting a little village with a shop there you

Go you never know what you’re going to get I do believe that big old Tower is the post office which is just Bonkers isn’t it that’s so pretty so what a fabulous little treat we have just had an absolutely fantastic um pla dig um lunch here at La Cantina

Restaurant it was absolutely delicious and exceptionally reasonable price of €19 each so there you go worth the cycle just for that wasn’t it bur it was worth it for the uh pouch pairing chocolate oh gorgeous thank you very much we’re just going to have a quick wcky of the rest of the village

And and then we’ll be heading home or back to the campsite rather not home you know what I mean let’s have a little walk down here just need to be careful cuz this is the main kind of the main road through the town and the cars do whizzle along here quite

Quickly there’s a little um Pottery Shop pot Tre there you are little information board about the village dagin oh and this is the Town Square well very sleepy town oh it looks like there’s another restaurant there have to check that one out that’s lovely little back streets little Church Square it’s all incredibly

Pretty oh and a jet fighter is it there Somewhere little little Street down There I’m not expected at all it’s actually bigger than I thought it was going to be I think that then runs out of town I should imagine have a quick wcky up here don’t think there’s anything else after this some of the buildings are just delightful look at that

Gorgeous quite a lot of shamb out so um little hotel rooms which I’m not surprised the r Napoleon we’ve got to have a r Napoleon in every French town I think I think it’s I think it’s the [Laughter] law oh look at that that’s so cute gorgeous I’m getting sidetracked again can’t help

Myself right let’s go go go yeah it’s big smile burned I know you’ve been out in the sunshine too long let’s go how was your par it was delicious itce it was really yummy my PE my poach peir and hot chocolate was lovely to show how easy really nice food yeah very

Very simple in fact the whole lunch was very very simple just a small shakery to start I had a absolutely be salmon fillet that was absolutely really thick beautifully cooked flaky not dry uh and um a peach peir a poach peir for dessert all for €19 bargain