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Other than drink copious amount of wine, eat tons of cheese and bread and consume foie gras and truffle until I'm blue in the face.
Any suggestions are or you all too vulgar to appreciate the wonders of France?*
*wait for Charles to be a condescending old goat with something like 'but there are tourists in the Dordogne!!!' :rolleyes:
What do you mean, 'do'? What does one generally 'do' on holiday? Are you looking for some organised family activities? Aerobics round the pool, Knobbly Knees competition, the sort of things you get to do in holiday resorts like Fujairah or Butlins? You won't find those in France mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Restaurant recommendations, chateaus that are worth a visit, markets that might be particularly wonderful, natural attractions of some kind, possibly a canoe expedition on the river, a city/town with a particularly spectacular town centre etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You have been to France, right Charles?
Oh. Just normal life, you mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I suggest you go there and investigate. Or you could always book an organised tour to make sure you don't miss anything. I expect the coach will be very modern with the latest in chemical toilets and everything. :thumbup: :sagaholidays:
:nono: I always drive to France.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Because I enjoy it and because it allows me to bring back a case of very expensive red.
Oh yes.
Don't, for the love of God, go near Limoges. It's truly fúcking dull.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
We mainly ate magret de canard, explored caves with prehistoric paintings and visited foi gras farms to watch geese being ritually tortured with a pipe shoved down their throats.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Stay away from France, imo; the place stinks of puppy piss.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
In fairness, that could just be my little piece of it.
Conduct some conversations in French.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Also, it's funny when you call us vulgar. :thumbup:
you could nip across to Rocamadour. nice place.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
You could pick up some wine and cheese while you're there. oh...
Chaws, I'm only about 10-15 minutes from Sarlat so that place isn't too long.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Sarlat? Went there as a kid. Doesn't it have an absolutely gorgeous car park full of trees? Or was that somewhere else?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Which one's Dordogne then? Come up on up to Paris, bro. I'll be there, we could go to strip clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
You went as a kid and you remember a car park?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
:sherlock: makes you wonder what went on with Ganpati in that car parkQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
**** car park if the trees take up the spacesQuote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
I remember caves in the Dordogne. Prehistoric wons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
Caves are cool and quiet *Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
*I have never been in one but I guess they are
Aren't most caves prehistoric? I mean, you rarely wander up to a rock and go, 'Oh look there's a new cave here that wasn't there last week'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Sadly, one knows so little of these geological matters.
I suppose so. This one had a little train in it that took you past loads of paintings done by cavemen. My niece decided she needed to pee at the point of no return and, since even the French frown on you urinating on sites of international historic interest, she had to hang on until we got out of the cave. Damn close run thing, it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The trouble with prehistoric cave paintings as that they're shít.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'd rather see a Rembrandt.
Better scribbles in an infant schoolQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Yeah, but they're well old. And I suppose what we're marvelling at is that these poor fücks who lived in caves were just as human as us, with loves and hates and the desire to express themselves just like us. Seeing those pictures from millennia past helps to close that otherwise insurmountable temporal gap and makes one feel connected to these people in a way one otherwise might not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It just reminds me that they were a bit thick and didn't have showers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Fúck them, smelly unartistic bástards.
Excellent fellows, imo. Hunters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
They were our ancestors, so if they were thick, so are we. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I don't think they had wellies, r.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
What did they use to draw with ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Burnt sticks dipped in berries ?
How the fück should I know, vpv? They were yammering on in Frog and I was trying to stop a five-year-old from wetting herselfQuote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
:nod: None of yer ghastly liberal urban trendies back then, redg. Women knew their job and did it. Great days.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
True. Probably not even Harrod's picnic hampers or Range Rovers or Barbours either. Savages basically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
:nod: Human history may be a dung hill, but it does grow beautiful roses, as Sir Humphrey might say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Pronounced browQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Underdeveloped features
Thick eyebrows
Stoop
Meet the ancestors
I didn't know you'd met Sir C?Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
I do not stoop. How very dare you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
True. You are homo erectus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I have seen his tribal member in the history booksQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Inspiration for early man to wield a threatening club