Brantôme perhaps?

When my sister and brother-in-law came to stay over Christmas and New Year, we had three weeks of settled, sunny weather, which seems incredible given what’s been chucked at us almost non-stop in the three months since they returned home. The settled spell gave us the chance to visit Brantôme on two occasions, which is a really lovely medieval town (aren’t they all) on the River Dronne. It’s a bit too full of British ex-pats to make me want to live there, but even so, I thought at the time that it would be a good place to do a circuit of by air.

I didn’t know at the time that I’d have the Savannah and although it would have been a flight of the best part of 2 hours in the X-Air, it’ll only take just under 1 hour in ASY. It looks as though tomorrow is going to be dry and bright all day, especially in the afternoon, and although the high will only be 14 degrees Celsius, it could be a good day to do the trip as the flying conditions will probably be pretty good.

Here’s a pic of the route that I’ll take if I do go.

It represents a complete circuit of Périgueux and as well as Brantôme itself, it also takes in the village of Sarliac-sur-l’Isle to Périgueux’s north east, Château l’Evêque on the main road to Angoulême to its north, Chancelade to its west and a small village called Eglise-Neuve-de-Vergt to its south that I’ve flown over once before. It should be a great opportunity to take some stunning photographs and who knows, I might even be able to shoot a video if I can get one of my little sports cams to stay on long enough 😉