A trip to Bourg

Leaving Blaye, take the really beautiful and unspoilt coastal road along the Gironde estuary to Bourg sur Gironde. On this scenic route there are 'carrelets' (fishing huts on stilts) with nets pegged out to catch prawns and small fish.

Bourg is built on a cliff above the Dordogne river. The castle on its summit was built in the XVIIIth century. In its precinct there is a museum of barouche carriages.

After wondering through the narrow streets of this pretty and rather exotic little town, go to Lansac to see the windmill built in the XVIIIth century. It is still milling wheat so you could take home with you a bag of flour.

Some kilometres on, at Prignac and Marcamps are the Pair-non-Pair caves where the oldest-known cave drawings of animals, dating from 30 000 BC, can be seen.