It has been a couple of days since I have been on the blog because our hotel had WI FI but after I entered the security code of about 20 numbers and letters it wouldn’t work.  I am currently in a Best Western in St. Jean – de-Luz and their WI FI works so, here we go.  We left Chinon and said goodbye to a very lovely girl, Karin, who worked at our hotel: Hotel du France.  Karin was very, very kind and helpful to us.  Thank you Karin!  We headed toward Limoge.

We stopped to have lunch in a tiny village and it was fabulous.  Who would think a tiny village store that sold clothes, groceries, meat and cheese would also fix a fabulous meal?  Lola called her friend John and he took her off to visit and Barbara, Susan and I headed for our next site.   

We stopped to visit Oradour-Sur-Glane which is a village where on June 10, 1944 the Nazis murdered 643 people, 193 were children.  The entire town was destroyed.  It was a haunting thing to see.

After visiting this village we headed toward Mortemart to buy gas and then we began the search for a hotel Rick Steves recommended.  We found it but it was closed.  We found another Bed and Breakfast but it had 28 stairs and the man said he couldn’t carry our big heavy bags and recommended the hotel we had just tried.  We called the number on the hotel door and the lady said she would be right there.  We saw the rooms and got three rooms.  It was called Hotel Le Relais.  We called Lola and told her where we were and she got there in time for dinner.  Dinner was incredible delicious.  In Rick Steves book he said the lady who operated the hotel was very helpful but didn’t speak a lot of English.  When I couldn’t get on the Internet she called her daughter in Atlanta, Georgia to see what was wrong.  Susan told her daughter that nothing was wrong we just couldn’t get on the Internet.  Now, that is helpful.