Castles In the Air: Coming Home to the Perigord

CASTLES IN THE AIR : Coming Home to the Perigord. The senses are heightened in the Perigord, what the French call la France profonde, deep France. The taste of food, the sweetness of the country air after one of the spectacular late-summer thunderstorms suddenly etching the sky with alarmingly jagged bolts of lightening. The drowsy rich summer days, followed by cool autumn nights and then the chill brilliance of a mid-winter frost. Perhaps because men and women have for so long worked the fields and every inch of land that can be tilled, the entire countryside has the effect of having been landscaped by some master hand. History is always present here, in the lichen-covered golden stone of every ancient house, in the narrow streets of ancient tiny villages, in the hauteur of a forbidding and crenellated chateau that towers imposingly next to a rushing river. Indeed history seems to infuse the very air of the Perigord, heir to all the ages of eternal France. There is mystery here and some say that it was born with the magic that scholars claim the ancient cave paintings may have been trying to conjure. Whatever the cause, the Perigord is indeed the most magical and the most beautiful region in all of France and as you drive along a narrow country road, the rich dark forest bordering either side, you suddenly see in the distance ghost-like towers rising above the trees, floating, it almost seems, on the horizon, the misty towers of a castle in the air. This is the story of how we came home to the Perigord.

• | Author: Alain Pioton, Byrne Fone
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Mar 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 73 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1792194315
• | ISBN-13: 9781792194313