A galette and manseng wine for lunch with our dear cousins Honor and David.
Darby cooked a delicious cassoulet. It didn't matter that the duck legs turned out to be large, because they were turkey legs!
A working bee outside was followed by a shared lunch.
A visit to Lectoure an attractive town in a more touristy region included a visit to a local industry extracting blue dye from the plant Isatis tinctoria.
In France during the Renaissance, the southwest region became the very famous "Pays de Cocagne" , a region of "milk and honey". The local woad merchants became extremely rich and built magnificient mansions, castles and churches.
But the arrival of foreign Indigos very quickly brought down the fortunes made on woad and entirely replaced it until the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte, who used woad to dye the fabric for his uniforms.
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