the garmin lady speaks worse french than I do

so i have no photos from lascaux-none allowed. suffice to say it is pretty incredible. cave paintings that are 17,000 years old. you actually tour lascaux II, which is a reproduction of the original cave because the original is so protected now. it was open to the public from the 40's to 1963 but people's breath, flashbulbs, and also pollen or fungus they brought in on their shoes caused changes within the interior and the paintings started becoming damaged. check out the website to see the paintings. i never thought much of cro magnon man before but I am giving him props now.

after montignac/lascaux, we drove into toulouse- our next base for 3 nights. this is a major city as opposed to plassac which we just left. I was a freaking wreck by the time we found the st sernin hotel. have i mentioned about driving in french cities? there are bicyclists, pedestrians, dogs, unfamiliar road signs, traffic signals on the right hand side instead of overhead, 20 different street signs or directional signs at an intersection, streets that radiate out-ie; no grid like layouts- more like a maze of streets, right hand lanes reserved for buses only (so you make a right hand turn from the middle lane), motorcyclists with a death wish; they drive 90 miles an hour between cars, weaving through traffic, never remaining in one lane and last but not least the street name is on the side of a building as opposed to a hanging street sign so then you are desperately trying to figure out if your turn is a hard left, the other left, or maybe the left 10 feet further down and sometimes you make the wrong decision, multiple times. you never heard a garmin say "re-calculating" as many times as i did yesterday.

when we sat down to dinner, my toast was to another day without killing anyone.