We now find ourselves right on the banks of the River Dordogne. As I previously posted, this was recommended to us by a man on a site in Britain (thank you), and also the more we have read the more we worked out we had to come inland a little further.
Therefore we trekked a little further from the beautiful St Emilion (did I talk about how lovely it was?) and are now in Limeuil where the Dordogne and the Vezere rivers meet. The evening activity after tea was a gentle walk down to the river (about 150m away), a stroll up the banks of the river,
and then after seeing people in the river, Clare knew I was a bit twitchy. I was keen to go in and get carried down the river with the handful of people doing the same thing. A bit of faffing later, and some persuasion of the gentle kind by Clare and I took the plunge. It was lovely. Being taking along on the current (crocs make good floats), heading due West so seeing the sun beginning to set from the middle of a rapid flowing river. I flipped onto my back and looked upstream to see the sunlit golden arches of the two bridges that cross the two rivers to get across to the equallysunlit golden town of Limeuil. A lovely evening, only spoilt by the idiot floating downstream! 
Ed
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