La Grange

Today we were nearly killed by the English. Twice! The English love to vacation in this part of France. Apparently there are so many of them that they think they are still in England. That is a very dangerous thing when combined with French roads, especially in Dodogne. The roads are very narrow, with nearly constant turns, many of them around blind corners. So far on this trip I must have made 2,000 turns, and I am not trying to exaggerate. The road to Hana is like the Interstate in Iowa compared to here. Twice today we rounded a blind corner only to see a vehicle coming straight at us in our lane! They had about 2 seconds to move over to avoid a head on crash. I blew my horn and started heading for the ditch. (The shoulders are only 1 or 2 feet wide, if that.) Luckily they swerved at the last instant and I was able to stay out of the ditch. Our French guide who was riding in the back seat was really shook up. He said he could tell that they were English by the license plates. He also said that the same thing had happened to him last week, but I got the impression that it wasn't such a close call.Read more