May 19th: Brantôme

We left Tarragona on 17th May, following the coast motorway across the Pyrenees and into France. Continuing on the motorway, at Narbonne you either turn right for Provence or left for Bordeaux and the Atlantic coast. We turned left, and half way to Bordeaux we headed up through the Dordogne region, much loved by the Brits, and made for the town of Brantôme. Most small towns in the Dordogne are very picturesque and Brantôme is no exception, as per photos below.



However, the local tourist board do go a bit OTT. Brantôme is built on an island in the river, so the river flows all around it, but that hardly merits their logo description of the town as the “Venice of the Dordogne”!
The campsite is on the edge of town, by the river, and beautifully sectioned into large individual grass pitches. Since arriving, the temperature has steadily risen. However, that hasn’t stopped us getting about, as next entries show.