Driving North: Brantôme & Angoulême

With only 12 days left until we need to be in Paris, we decided to make a 300km dash northward to the Loire Valley, so these two towns were just “passing through” visits along the way …

A detour through the delightful town of Brantôme was quite nostalgic for Dot & Lenny, who had a memorable stay here 11 years ago.  The town is built on an island surrounded by the Dronne river, and is very picturesque.

We just happened to hit Angoulême at about 12.30pm when it, and the rest of France closes for a couple of hours.  So, there was literally no traffic in the city centre, and we scored a park opposite the cathedral, just long enough to leap out and take a photo – this one shows the side windows of the cathedral and the style of architecture of the townhouses.