In the afternoon, we drove a windy, mountain-hugging road to Rocamadour, the famous cliff-hugging village in the Lot valley and a noted pilgramage site in the middle ages. We parked on the bottom road in the picture, walked up to the main village and paid €2 to ride up an elevator 50m (these modern pilgrims had a lot less grit than the medieval ones ;) The elevator was actually very cool with glass walls where you could see the interior rock face as we went up.
We walked around the ramparts up top and also around the main church, which is built right into the rock face.
And then descended the steps to the main village, which was filled with somewhat garish souvenir shops - reminding me a lot of
Carcasonne.
Finally we stopped for a drink on a panoramic hotel terrace, where I indulged in my second ice-cream of the day. Alas, it wasn't terribly good, quelle dommage!
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