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<\/a><\/p>\nI got away from Galinat just before 11.00 am and as I turned onto track, I knew that my decision to fly earlier than usual had paid off because the ride was almost completely smooth. There was the odd bump but you have to expect that when you fly over such large areas of tree-covered hills the way that we do down here. I made my way to Gourdon via a chateau that’s marked on the chart but I’m blowed if I could find it. I’ve tried once before and I’m beginning to think that it’s either a mistake or some kind of anomaly.<\/p>\n
When I drive south, I usually go across country via Sarlat and pick up the ‘payage’ a little way north of Cahors. The route takes me through Gourdon which is a charming little town and I’d been thinking for some time that I’d like to photograph it from the air. In fact, the results were rather disappointing, mainly because I didn’t fly close enough so the shots don’t include enough detail. It was my own fault so I’ll have to make a return visit some time, but for now I’ve just shown the one pic, below, of the town, showing its bathing lake in the foreground next to the road south from Sarlat.<\/p>\n
I then turned around to head up to Sarlat with the Aerodrome de Sarlat Domme over on my left. I took the next couple of shots of the Dordogne river as I was approaching Sarlat from the south.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, I have no idea of the name of the beautiful chateau that’s visible in the shots on the north bank of the river. Sarlat itself is a bit of a mish-mash of architecture and styles. It’s an ancient town and the second city of the Perigord after Perigueux itself. As a result, it houses official administrative services in modern office blocks and has also attracted a large number of commercial and retail organisations, most of which are located in the southern parts. LeClerc have built an enormous new hypermarket there which only opened this week, on 14 May actually, and you can see what I mean from the next two photographs.<\/p>\n The central and northern parts of Sarlat do contain some newer buildings, but those areas are where most of the older and more traditional ones can be found. The final two photographs show just how different the northern and southern parts of the town are.<\/p>\n The whole flight only lasted for 55 minutes, and that included a circuit over Thonac to line up for a long approach to Galinat. But it was good fun and the up-side was that by doing it early, I had the time to laze in the sun for a change, this afternoon \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had a lovely day today with clear blue skies and a high of 26 degrees Celsius. The gusting winds that we’ve been getting for the past few days were forecast to abate somewhat and sure enough, although not completely calm, we had southerly breezes of no more than 7-8 mph. I’d got myself ready … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6279,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n