St Emilion

We have been staying at Lysel’s house in Bergerac (Patricia’s Aunt), and she kindly lent us her car for the past two days. So in true Aussie fashion we just basically hit the road!! We drove ourselves west to the medieval wine village of St Emilion. This is our most favourite place so far in France. It is the epicentre of the wine region in and around Bordeaux and Bergerac, with some history of its own aswell. The village is named after a miracle-working monk who lived in a cave here between 750AD and 767AD. We climbed the belltower for an amazing view of the village and surrounding vineyards, and then ventured down to this quaint café for some lunch and red wine. We bought 3 bottles of plonk from the local wine merchant, and drove away fully satisfied that we had seen a perfect piece of French countryside. The wine was very very nice by the way….