The First Spring Sunday out in the Countryside of the Dordogne

Monday, March 12

Spring is in the air! And what can be more pleasureable than enjoying the French countryside -- before all the tourists arrive! The most special time of the year -- welcoming the first swans that are back from their winter sojourn in warmer climes, having our first meal -- a feast of oysters fresh from the coast, out on the terrace of the chateau, watching the Dordogne River still in full flood -- a molten gold torrent of water; driving through the countryside of the Dordogne Perigord, browsing around Brocante markets (such as the first one in Mausac, enjoying the blossoms that are out and the first bright sunshine, doing your week's grocery shopping at the fresh produce market in Issigeac, saying hello to everyone who has been hiding away behind their shutters........