Cultural Digression

As it was raining today and hence no gardening, the gardener decided that she would humour me and let us go to an Art museum/gallery that I had discovered.  The artist, Paul Rebeyrolle, is considered to be an important French painter of the 20th century, even though I'd never heard of him.  The gallery was in the small town of Eymoutier where he was born and grew up;  Eymoutier is to the east of Limoges in the Haute-Vienne.

Rebeyrolle's art is violent, political and aggressive.  He uses diverse materials to create very large paintings.

There was also on show some lithographs he had done in conjunction with a poet.

After this burst of culture we were ready for lunch and Sue had noted a restaurant in one of the small towns on the way in, Châteauneuf-la-Forêt.  When we got back to it, there were about 10 workmen's vans parked outside ... always a good sign!

(NB. This photo was taken after the workmen ... and their vans, had gone.  We were the last to leave.)
The restaurant was full ... and for good reason.  A warm gessier salad for starter, a huge plate of roast pork with lentils and grilled tomatoes, as much cheese as you wished from a selection of about 6 cheeses, a choice of 4 puddings, bread, more wine than we could drink at lunchtime and all for 13.50 euros each.

We were interested to see a different part of France, rolling Limousin cattle country, no people and then, to our delight, some flocks of sheep ... with baby lambs.