When we signed up for this tour, we were given an itinerary with the plans for each day. But we were happily surprised by two lunches that we did not expect.
On the day we left Sarlat, we stopped at the Canal du Midi, which is the canal that connects the Mediterrean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, across southwest France. (I didn't even know it existed!) We took a short trip on a barge, up the canal and through a lock to a higher level. The locks are needed because the canal has to cross higher and then lower terrain. We ate our picnic lunches on the barge.
The following day, we stopped at a vineyard, where a woman named Sylviane explained to us the sustainable agricultural methods she and her husband use for growing wine grapes. They use pheromones instead of insecticide - to cause "sexual confusion" in the butterflies so they don't mate and produce caterpillars that destroy the grapes. !! They pick all the grapes by hand, and they use natural cooling methods and gravity in their wine pr
oduction, which we also toured.
oduction, which we also toured.After the tour, we had a chance to sample several of the wines they produce. Then, Sylviane treated us to a delicious country-style lunch on their terrace, with yummy foods I had never seen or heard of before: something that looked like a tomato pizza, cold zucchini soup in a glass, pumpkin squash with duck meat, pasta salad, mackeral, tuna - and, of course, their own red wines. I wish I had taken photos of the food they served, but I was too busy eating it to take photos!
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