Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Before leaving Maurs I enjoyed breakfast at the restaurant in the hotel. I tried their special that morning of eggs with black truffles. It did not disappoint and we were on our way to the next destination. We decided to drive to Murat and stay there for the night. On our way, we discovered another little church that begged to have it's photo taken! It was called Eglise de Quézac.
Here is a photo of the outside:


Here is a photo of some of the gorgeous stained windows:


Moving on to Murat, we decided to stop at another one of the churches called Our Lady of Olives.
There was a bunch of beautiful artwork in this church. Here is a photo of my favorite:


I love looking at old artwork and gorgeous churches.This trip has definitely been great for that so far. After this, we started to get a craving for lunch and heard that LE JARROUSSET was a great place to check out. I decided to have the Le pigeonneau en croute, mousseline de céleri et jus court, which ended up being pidgeon! I never knew you could eat that bird, but it did end up tasting pretty good. I was pleasantly surprised. For desert I had
Tous les fruits rouges et noirs du moment, glace réglisse. This ended up being raspberries, blackberries and licorice ice cream. It was delicious.

After leaving the restaurant, we decided to drive over to our hotel called Le Lac Du Pêcher in Chavagnac. It was about 5 miles away from Murat next to the river. We got there and found out they have a ton of services like hiking trips and a full spa! I am headed to the spa right now to get a much needed massage and facial. We booked a hiking trip for tomorrow morning, which should be tons of fun. Our hotel room was awesome and even had an outdoor hot tub! Check this out:


Here is a photo I took of our gorgeous room before I fell into my bed:


Well I am headed to bed for the night! What a wonderful trip this is turning out to be. Nothing too exciting, but a lot of great old art and great French food.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Wonders of the French Countryside

This morning we enjoyed a lovely breakfast before we checked out of our B&B in Najac. I enjoyed some delicious crepes, my favorite French breakfast food, and a few farm fresh eggs. Everything was so delicious, it was hard to move to pack up and get going on our trip, but somehow we made it on the road again. Our first stop was to admire one of the Missions in Savensa called "Sanvensa croix des missions." Here is a photo we took of the beautiful crucifix in the mission.


We then moved on to the city of Figeac, where we had a delightful lunch at the La dînée du Viguier. It was so nice to have everything suggested for me since French food is not something I am all that familiar with. I enjoyed for an appetizer Scallops on a skewer wrapped in homemade duck ham, served on mashed potatoes and cod,sabayon of saffron from the Querçy’. For my entree I had a filet of Quercy’ lamb roasted with herb stuffing, Giblet’s skewer with a parsley sauce, and seasonal fresh vegetables. I paired this with the wine that was recommended and it was just perfect.I finished the meal with a crunchy almond biscuit with strawberry Gariguettes,light cream vanilla flavor Madagascan. I was so full, this trip is certainly turning out to be quite the diet buster.
(http://www.ladineeduviguier.fr/index1en.php?module=menus)

We decided to visit the local museum to see some of their local art collections. My favorite piece was this Papyrus from Ancient Egypt.
(http://atelier.arnaudvitet.chez-alice.fr/Galerie.htm)

After spending most of the day admiring museums and the rest of the beautiful area, we finally moved on to our hotel in Maurs. The Village De Vacances La Chataigneraie Et Spa ended up being a great place to relax and enjoy the scenery. Here is the view from our room. Pretty awesome!





Here is a link to some other photos of the hotel.
(http://www.booking.com/hotel/fr/village-de-vacances-la-chataigneraie-et-spa.en-us.html?aid=306395;label=maurs-TVRT77FhtB_cmlGYph25jQS5059089389;sid=40660163f45df215835763cfe3f2dd4e)

Well, that is all for this trip. Hope you enjoyed sharing in my adventures.