The delightful small town of Montignac is close by the cave of Lascaux, which must be high on the list of any traveller in this region. Depending on the season, tickets for the Cave, set high on the hillside above the town, need to be purchased in advance, and tours in the various languages take place every hour or two, making the timing of visits slightly important.
The original cave, discovered some years ago by a group of small boys out with their dog, has been closed to all but the most important visitors and then only one small group each day, to prevent the damage being caused by ever increasing numbers of visitors. It is a great tribute to French engineering that they have reproduced, to the very fraction of a millimeter an exact replica of the original, and even taking the trouble to copy the paintings using the same pigments and "brushes" used thousands of years ago. The paintings are stunning, and the whole experience most memorable.
A day is quickly swallowed up by these excursions, but we also visited Les Eyzies and the Museum of Prehistory, and Le Thot, the reproduction of an ancient village with the flora and fauna which existed at that time, and a very fine audio visual presentation.
All these, and many more visits, were we able to make during the five days remaining of our holiday,including a visit to Bergerac, but somewhere along the line, about the Tuesday or Wednesday we began to idly look in the windows of various "Immobiliers" and could not help being attracted to the various properties for sale, particularly because of the price,.
It was at this point that our destiny took a dramatic change in direction which was to shape our lives from that time on.
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