Day S of the hike - Beynac to Vitrac

We were hoping that our luck would hold out again and that we wouldn't get lost on today's hike. Adding 5-8 km to a long day is no fun.

First thing in the morning, we got to do an extended visit to the Catslenaud Castle. It looks over the Dordogne valley and you can see the Chateau Beynac in the distance. This was the castle where the English army stayed while they attacked the French in Beynac. (We went to visit Beynac yesterday after resting our legs for a bit.). We skipped the gardens. The Castlenaud Castle is now a museum dedicated to arms in the middle ages- Lin loved all the cross bows and trebuchet engines.

We went on to La Roque Gageac- a village built against the cliffs. We arrived with no problem.Unfortunately, the directions didn't say to get off the offical Grand Randonee trail so we kept going (almost straight uphill) through serious forest to reach the top of the mountain before admitting that we had screwed up. (Pretty much Lin's fault completetly-oops.).
We had a picnic lunch at the foot of the mountain and blew through La Roque Gageac village in pretty poor humor.

We walked on to Domme with only a slight delay as we made our way through some poorly written directions. The view was lovely but we didn't spend much time. A memorable event for Lin- the public toilets stole her money. From the graffiti on the doors, it seems others had issues using the facilities in the past as well.

More issues with poorly written directions once we left the town meant we lost more time before figuring out which path it was that we were supposed to take. (We were a little cranky at this juncture.)

We arrived at Vitrac by 5:30 pm and checked into the very charming Hotel
Laisance in Le Port. Our room was absolutely HUGE and there was a jacuzzi!!! Heaven! With our spirits restored, we went to dinner and had a great time.