Day 40, Saturday, October 7, 2023

Saturday is market day.  We woke up to the sounds of vendors setting up their tents and tables.  This is the view from our window. After breakfast we go check out the market.  The streets are crammed with vendors…

There are fresh fruits and vegetables.  These little radishes are so yummy, and very reasonable, just 1euro for a big bunch. However there are many more vendors selling a variety of meats and foie gras.  I’m afraid we weren’t tempted by these stalls.

These are duck and goose livers, and other items that I do not even recognize.  The chickens and I think perhaps grouse all still have their heads!

This is the old church that is now an indoor market.  You can see the big doors open behind Bob.

We try out some street food…

and after a stroll down another street…

We head back to our apartment for lunch, perhaps not the healthiest, but it sure was good.  We saved the beans for our dinner.

We wander through the Cathedral Saint-Sacerdos, and I find these beautiful reflections from the stained glass window. We visit the Hotel de Maleville which has an artist’s studio on the top floor attic.

The stairs up to the attic have seen a lot of use.

The attic roof is ‘shingled’ with fieldstone’s.  These ‘Thackstone’ roofs are very steep.  This shape distributes the weight throughout the walls.  Once a thackstone roof is installed, it does tend to stay in place! Here is a peek at the underside of one of these roofs.

Here is what these roofs looks like from the outside.  The Gisson Manor is composed of two different buildings linked by a hexagonal stair tower. This manor’s origins are in the 13th century.

The artist, Adrien Kenyon, https://www.adriankenyon.com/ who works in this unique studio makes collages, and has an interesting sense of humour.  The collages are unique, and large.

He doesn’t mind people taking photos and just asks to be given credit for his work.   Here is another beautiful old building, the house of Etienne de La Boétie.  He was born in Sarlat on November 1,1530 and died on August 18, 1563.  He was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist who died when he was only 32.

We find another building with artist’s studios and there are two rooms full of works similar to these.  I lost the artist’s card so don’t know her name, but I wonder about being able to draw all those tiny circles.  Some of the artwork is a 90 x 60 cm or larger.  

Another studio has a variety of work, some interesting, some not so much.

Time to go home, but first here is one more of Sarlat’s medieval streets.