We began our day at Peche Merle. Lillian's fabulous teacher from CE2 had recommended it. The most famous cave paintings in France are in the cave at Lascaux. You can no longer go into the cave at Lascaux and can only visit a reproduction of the cave. Peche Merle is a bigger cave and a limited number of visitors are allowed each day. Some of the paintings, like these horses are thought to be 25,000 years old. Crazy. No photos were allowed in the cave. The tour was given in French, but they had hand outs in several other languages. The guide was excellent and we all enjoyed the tour.
We had lunch at a mostly vegetarian restaurant in a beautiful setting.
http://www.lejardindecabrerets.com
http://www.lejardindecabrerets.com
In the afternoon, we visited this historical village. It portrays life in the 19th century.
I thought the coolest part was the building with all of the printing presses. There was a very knowledgeable man giving demonstrations.
He made prints of Gustave Doré's Little Red Ridinghood. The girls and I saw a Gustave Doré exhibit at Musée D'Orsay and now, it has followed us to Ottawa.
The Linotype machine blew my mind. Unfortunately, I was so amazed that I botched my one photo of it. It was created so that print setters could put lines of type into their presses rather than individual letters. The machine poured liquid into tiny letter molds that were moved into place by someone typing at a keyboard. We were given a demonstration and it was crazy.
This is liquid lead that has cooled. He did a demo for us and then picked up the lead and put it back into the machine to be melted and used again.
The Mill
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