Cahors… Your beauty must be rubbing off on me.

Posted on May 19, 2009

I’ve been in Cahors since Sunday morning now. If I haven’t written much over the last few days it’s because I’ve been busy falling in love with the Lot (that’s how they call this region). The way of life here is pretty much all about the food. I was welcomed at the Cahors train station Sunday morning by Alain’s grandmoth er, and from there we headed over to his gorgeous 18th century home. His mother had been busy cookin up some food since the early morning to welcome thy honoured Acadian guest. Now, I was planning to update you on a bunch of stuff that had made me fall in love with this place to the point where I never want to go home to Montreal again, but the magret is almost ready and my new friend Vince has just arrived. Yesterday, he took me for a ride around the lot to Douelle and Parnac where we visited the local vignobles (wineries). Today, after the food, we’re going rock climbing.I’ll try to describe other wonderful things in the next few days if I can manage to slow down the discoveries long enough to be around a computer to write. We’ll see I guess…  Photo by Alain Astruc