Tue 8 Jul- another grey cloudy cool day. After a very good buffet breakfast (but expensive at E14/each) we found the computer could connect to the wi-fi network, with a good strong signal, but IE could not display the pages requested. We've seen this problem before, and it seems to be a DNS issue. So Stan worked on the hotel's computer and Kiyomi worked on the laptop without Internet.
The afternoon warmed up and the sky cleared, so we walked to the nearby village, St. Vincent de Cosse. It really is a tiny town, no gas station, no bank, no post office, just a few B&Bs and some residences (some very nice, some pretty bad)
Kiyomi has some advice for making reservations in Europe. Use www.booking.com, or for more interesting upscale places, in France www.chateauxhotels.com, in Portugal http://www.pousadas.pt/, and in Spain www.paradores.com. Not all the pousadas and paradores are worth the added cost for lodging and meals over the nearby regular hotels, and some are in inconvenient locations; but some are really unique and interesting places to stay (castles, mansions, country estates, monasteries or palaces). Avoid the website www.planigo.com; it has a flaky business model that ofen results in canceled reservations after they have charged your credit card and you receive a confirmation.
For dinner, we went to the Restaurante Hotel du Chateau in Beynac and had a carafe of Bergerac white wine; 'Tourain du Perigord a l'ail' (garlic soup); 'salade de chef avec les ingredients du jour' (chef salad of the day); 'omlette aux truffles de Perigord' (omlet with truffles); 'truite flambee aux amandes' (trout flambeed with almonds), total E66. The garlic soup was quite good and unique, the omlet was delicious and unique, the trout was fresh and tender, and we left quite stuffed.
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