While I had gone to the Dordogne for the duck and foie gras, the amazing views were a bonus. The Missus, well She wanted to come here to view some prehistoric cave art. If you're coming here for all the Cro-Magnon stuff, you'll probably end up in Les Eyzies de Tayac a small single street village with amazing looking cliffs looming over it.
This town is where the first Cro-Magnon was found in 1868. There's an interesting story about how these early humans came to be called "Cro-Magnon". I'll go over that at a later time.
We took a walk through the town....it is basically one street, before deciding what to do. We got in the car and drove to the Pôle International de la Préhistoire, which is basically a welcome/introduction center, which has exhibits, interactive activities, and other resources for the area. There are maps and we noticed that the staff here really engage the visitors.
The building is quite sleek and modern; you cross a bridge over the Beune River and enter the building.
We really enjoyed the exhibits.
By the time we finished up here, it was time to check in. Or so we thought. We arrived at the place we were staying and found the offices closed! There was no one around. After searching around a bit, a staff member arrived at the office to pick something up. Apparently the offices are closed on Sunday. And no one had informed us. Luckily, the nice young lady went to a lock box and got us our key. We were supposed to have been sent an email with instructions.....we never received one. When I spoke to the front desk person about this the next day, the response I got was a shrug and "well, perhaps we forgot". Perhaps we forgot? I got the feeling that this might be a normal occurrence.
Anyway, it was time for an early dinner. On our early walk through town we noticed one place that seemed unusually busy.
Strangely, it was a "pizza" shop. Perhaps it was the location, but still, we were intrigued. So we decided to have dinner here.
Being rather early, the place was empty except for one other table, but by the time we left the place had filled up. There were some interesting, not-quite-my-neighborhood-pizza-joint items on the menu.
We started with the Charcuterie Plate (9,8€), which was quite generic, and really not worth the price.
The Missus did really well ordering the Salade Perigourdine (14,9€). The salad was huge and topped with Magret seche (duck breast), Gesiers (duck gizzards which we enjoyed on a previous salad), and yes, Foie Gras.
This was a decent salad; not haute cuisine, but very refreshing, delicious, and well worth the price (about 16.75 US). The foie gras was decent and this is almost large enough for two.
I went with the Duck Confit, which had obviously been reheated.
This was way too much food for us; so we save the duck and had it the next day. It was fine, but nothing special. We did enjoy the potatoes.
Service was fine, the prices were right, and the Missus loved Her salad.
Pizzeria La Milanaise
41 Avenue de la Préhistoire
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France
We had a nice walk back to the apartments and dropped by a wine shop along the way.
So our residence was kind of strange, there were so many rules for cleaning, and all of that. And yet, there were no paper towels, no soap, no dishwashing liquid, and half a roll of toilet paper. The worse thing was the bed which had a plastic liner and was hard as rock. I guess this place is fine for long term stays, you'd have to go shopping and get everything yourself whether you stay was for a couple of days or couple of weeks.
But on the bright side.....the bottle of wine was not half bad......
glad you were able to get the keys!
Posted by: kat | Friday, 26 August 2016 at 11:14 PM
Cool looking city! That's good you had good wine!
Posted by: [email protected] | Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 08:21 AM
What's so special about the fries?
Posted by: nhbilly | Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 07:59 PM
We were too Kat!
Hard to get bad wine in France Soo!
Crisp on the exterior, creamy inside....just fried right, Billy. Sometimes, just doing it right is enough!
Posted by: Kirk | Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 08:11 PM
Bummer about the bed and the folks "forgetting" to notify you that no one would be there to give you your key. :(
Posted by: caninecologne | Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 08:33 PM
Yeah CC.......that place was not very good.
Posted by: Kirk | Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 08:39 PM
True, that.
Posted by: nhbilly | Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 06:38 AM
Lol Billy!
Posted by: Kirk | Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 06:44 AM