Autoire, a village in the old Quercy province

The village in these photos, called Autoire, is not actually in the modern-day Dordogne, though it is in the Dordogne river valley. It is located only a 30-minute drive east of Rocamadour. It is also one of the plus beaux villages de France, as is another nearby village called Loubressac. There are two châteaux in Autoire. It's a placee I'd like to go back to, because 20 years ago all we did was drive through and stop to take a few photos. We didn't go to Loubressac or either of Autoire's châteaux.

More views of Rocamadour

 

Rocamadour: views from on high

At Rocamadour, you can park your car at the bottom of the town and walk up to the top. There's also an elevator you can take for the steepest part of the ascent, if I remember correctly. The other option is to drive up the the top, walk down, and then take the elevator by up. I think we did that, and I took pictures of house farther down.

The price of fuel in France

If my arithmetic is good, the price of a U.S. gallon of diesel fuel in France is just short of 9.75 U.S. dollars right now.

• 1 liter of diesel fuel costs 2.19 euros
• 1 U.S gallon = 3.8 liters
• 2.19 per liter x 3.8 liters = 8.32 euros
• 8.32 euros = 9.73 US dollars at today's exchange rate (1 euro = 1.17 USD)

Two or three days ago I went to the SuperU filling station in Saint-Aignan and put 25 liters (6.6 U.S. gallons) of diesel fuel in our Peugeot's fuel tank. That cost me 55.5 euros. (We have two cars, and both have diesel engines.) Premium gasoline costs just slightly less.

Walt went to the SuperU filling station early yesterday morning to get 10 liters of gasoline for our lawn mower. He said he was the only person buying fuel there at that hour.

We won't be making trips to places farther than 5 miles from our house for the foreseeable future.