Following the Dordogne - worth it?

Britishbeefy

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• Aug 14, 2022

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Heading into France tomorrow and eventually to my cousin’s in Beaulieu-sur-dordogne. I’m heading for a night near Clermont then was thinking of pootling around the old volcanoes and following the dordogne down to his house.
Seems like a decent area, not one I’ve been to before.
Any experience?

Assuming there is much ‘dordogne’ up high……although it looks like I’ll be taking them some proper post heatwave storms on my travels

 

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The upper reaches of the Dordogne are lovely. I stayed in La Bourboule for a few nights, not far from the source near Le Mont-Dore. Lovely roads like Col de la Croix St Robert https://goo.gl/maps/nZsJHdn3s8YPWwik9

On the way to B-s-D ride over Puy Mary https://goo.gl/maps/TCLQjWxvoTvwLgyv8 which would be a better route that following the river itself, which seems to be a series of EDF reservoirs.

 

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Cheers bud, good tips. Will do that.

A few days of riding around before he gets me labouring I suspect.

 

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As above, Puy Mary is a nice route, there are some great roads and scenery around Clermont Ferrand

Depending upon where you’re going in the Dordogne there are lots of prehistoric sites worth a visit in the “Valley of man” including:

https://www.roque-st-christophe.com/

https://www.lascaux-ii.fr/

And of course Rocamadour

 

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leadfarmer said:

As above, Puy Mary is a nice route, there are some great roads and scenery around Clermont Ferrand

Depending upon where you’re going in the Dordogne there are lots of prehistoric sites worth a visit in the “Valley of man” including:

https://www.roque-st-christophe.com/

https://www.lascaux-ii.fr/

And of course Rocamadour

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Thanks again. I’ve got time to escape whilst I’m there so hoping to do some exploring.

 

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• Aug 16, 2022

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leadfarmer said:

As above, Puy Mary is a nice route, there are some great roads and scenery around Clermont Ferrand

Depending upon where you’re going in the Dordogne there are lots of prehistoric sites worth a visit in the “Valley of man” including:

https://www.roque-st-christophe.com/

https://www.lascaux-ii.fr/

And of course Rocamadour

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My neck of the woods, I cycle past Roque st Christophe every day on my bike, just 8 kms from my house. There are hundreds of places within 30 kms of the place that are worth a look and most of them are not yet known to any tourists.
If you do make it to RstC then look for the village of Fanlac, (8 kms away) park next to the church and spend a few hours looking around, very interesting WW2 history and one of the prettiest villages you will find, but hardly ever a tourist in sight.