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| Puy L'Évêque - church at top of hill |
Puy L'Évêque
is a little town in the Lot region of France. It's name apparently translates
to Bishop's Hill – there is certainly a big church on the top of the hill. Less than 3000 people live there.
It was market day on the day we visited
so the traffic was a bit mad. We found a
park quite close to the information centre and grabbed a map and headed out on
foot.
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| Puy L'Évêque - small, narrow steep roads |
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| You find floral displays like this all over the place |
It was almost lunchtime but none of the
places we saw appealed. We ended up
going back to the car and driving back to where the market was – now over so we
parked in the square and found a restaurant in a hotel on one side of the
square.
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| View from lunch down river Lot |
It was 1.30pm, so we were lucky to be
accepted because lunch starts very strictly at 12 for the French. And the unexpected bonus was that the dining
room had a stunning view from up high down to the Lot river and across the
countryside.
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| View up river from lunch |
We had the set menu which was fine – but
maybe not spectacular. For the first
course you could choose melon with ham or a terrine of blood sausage, onions
and apples, or a mixed salad. The main
course was a beef skewer on a bed of mashed potato and some aubergine and
courgette. We did have one glass of wine
(for me) and 2 coffees – total cost 42.50 Euros.
Another feature of the town was the incongruous sight
of a Kiwi Café named Café Pukeko – a New Zealand native bird. We didn't get to try it out because they had
closed for the afternoon.
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| View from Cafe Pukeko - the place we had lunch can be seen at the top left - a rectangle of dark looking glass |
It was located
on the other side of the river from the hotel where we had lunch and also had great
views across the river to the old town.
Quaint town with great views!
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