Category Archives: Tourist attractions

VTT comes to the GDA

Posted on May 28, 2012 by

Can you say VTT? Presuming that your first language is English, you’re probably sounding out the letters as “vee tee tee,” and you don’t have any idea what they could stand for. If your first language is French, you would … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Life in southwest France, Restaurants in the Dordogne, Sports, Tourist attractions | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Inside a cooking class with Your Own French Chef — The prep

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Whether you’re fortunate enough to live in the Greater Daglan Area already, or are planning a vacation here, you might want to consider taking a cooking (English translation: cookery) class. Or maybe you’d simply like a professional chef to create … Continue reading →

Posted in French food, Life in southwest France, Markets in France, Tourist attractions | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Bike ride? No, a bike race

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

I was planning to take a nice bike ride late Monday afternoon. Seriously, I was. Then our plans got turned around rather quickly, and we wound up in the middle of what turned out to be quite a good, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Life in southwest France, Sports, Tourist attractions | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

A lovely, four-hour, end-of-March ride

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

In this posting I’m going to share a lovely, four-hour ride that my wife Jan and I took on this beautiful, sunny day — including a lot of photos of the Greater Daglan Area and the Dordogne Valley as it … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Flora and fauna, French food, Life in southwest France, Restaurants in France, Restaurants in the Dordogne, Tourist attractions, Travels in and out of France, Weather in the Dordogne | Tagged , | 4 Comments

The greening of the GDA

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Getting the Greater Daglan Area to look right has been a bit of a struggle. Despite having summer officially declared (by Radio Free Daglan), the countryside has been looking awfully brown, and the plants and flowers and shrubs and flowering … Continue reading →

Posted in Flora and fauna, Life in southwest France, Tourist attractions | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tourist Season 2012, Day 1

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

By the powers vested in us, we at Radio Free Daglan have declared today, Thursday, March 1, to be the official start of the 2012 Tourist Season in the Greater Daglan Area, the GDA. And we have sound reasoning behind … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Life in southwest France, Restaurants in the Dordogne, Tourist attractions | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Fancy a horse ride?

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

It’s been a bit grey and rainy for the past several days, but no complaints from this corner of the Greater Daglan Area. The rain is much needed, the sun does break through now and again, and the temperatures are … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Flora and fauna, Life in southwest France, Tourist attractions | Leave a comment

Our Great Smoky Hills

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

The Great Smoky Mountains of the U.S., in Tennessee and North Carolina, are so far from here that even the most patriotic Daglanais would not consider them to be a part of the Greater Daglan Area, or GDA. But lately, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flora and fauna, Life in southwest France, Tourist attractions | Leave a comment

A well-decorated town

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

Belvès is one of our favourite destinations in the Greater Daglan Area, and it seems as if we visit there every few weeks — either by car or bike. Well, evidently we’ve haven’t been visiting as often as we had … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in southwest France, Tourist attractions | Leave a comment

September song

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

If you’ve never been to the Greater Daglan Area, and are wondering when to visit, the answer is simple: September. As this month draws to a close, it’s been reminding us day after day why this is the best time … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling in the Dordogne, Life in southwest France, Markets in France, Restaurants in France, Tourist attractions | 2 Comments