Martel, in the Lot

The attractive town of Martel is in the Lot department, just to the east of the Dordogne and is a region I haven’t mentioned very often. Not, you understand, because it has nothing much to offer – rather, because I want to make sure that its beauty and charm remains unspoiled!

The north-west of the Lot department is the part I know best, and is jam-packed with natural beauty, beautiful scenery and great towns and villages.

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A trip to Puy l-Eveque

We arrived in Puy l’Eveque around 10am in the morning. Good sign – it was a lovely warm spring day. Bad sign – couldn’t find anywhere to park, perhaps because it was market day. It took a few minutes to find that there is plenty of parking at the west edge of the town, very little if you approach from the east.

It also turned out that the town looks very attractive if you approach from the east (Cahors side) but less so from the west (Fumel side). Don’t be discouraged whichever side you are coming from! As it turned out Puy l’Eveque is small and it doesn’t really matter where you park.

There was a sign marked ‘panorama’ so we took a look out across the roof tops of the town, which was very pretty. Just below the panorama was a garden that looked long abandoned but was in a beautiful position – I wonder why they didn’t make more of it. Read more