So I’d know where this is.
I know it’s a tiny village off the road from Sarlat to Terrasson in the Dordogne, but I don’t know the name and can’t figure it out from looking at the map. It’s been bugging me lately because I have my screen saver set to the folder from our 2007 trip, and I keep seeing it and wondering. We looked out over this view while having lunch in a little restaurant whose proprietor also did stone sculptures like the one at the right. I mentioned the lunch in my blog entry for the day, but didn’t bother with the name.
I guess we’ll just have to go back and find it. As I remember, the food wasn’t spectacular, but it was such a lovely day in the little garden with the mannerly cat and lichen-covered statues of fat little animals that it didn’t matter.
Is it just me? Does everyone else keep better notes of things like this?
Well, it’s several months later, but today I happened upon another photo from this lunch and decided I had to find the name of the village.
It’s Saint-Geniès, and the restaurant is La Vieille Auberge.
It really was a lovely tiny village.
I never used to but now I try. On my last trip to Mexico there were sooo many difficult names so I am glad I took notes.
I keep a little journal in my bag and everytime I sit down for coffee or whatever, I jot down what I’ve done so far that day. I take photos of signs too, or landmarks I recognize, but I still have to put some effort into figuring my photos out when I get home.
It is comforting to hear that this happens to other people as well. It frustrates me to no end. Perhaps we need a ‘travel’ self-help group! LOL
Perhaps I should just post a pic on slowtravel and ask if anyone knows what or where it is!
Girasoli’s idea is a great one.
I’m like Girasoli but lately, I’ve even forgotten those pictures. It’s killing me like you because I’m trying to recreate details of trips and I can’t. I used to be so good to at taking notes…
The last week of our Piemonte trip is “lost” to me, as I killed the laptop and didn’t continue to take daily notes. I have photos, but as I look at the map I dimly recall towns and sights, where we ate, some town or…other without the means to put them together and glue the memories in place. As much as a pain it can be to blog during a trip, I do find that the trips I’ve done a daily detailed blog on are the ones that now are much stronger in detailed memory for me.
I wish I can say I take better notes, but I don’t. I get so “absorbed’ in the moment that I..forget to take a note, but like girasoli, I try to take photos of signs and such. Maybe blogging will help me.
Great suggestion! I hope I remember that on our next trip.
Beautiful photos! Once I started using digital cameras, I now take pictures of signs, as a way of keeping notes. I also take pictures of landmarks to help me so I won’t get lost finding my way.