Adventures in Périgord

I’m regularly the first one to be suspicious of any types of “charm” with very good reasons. This time, the charm in question could be found in a very old building sheltering a would-be modern B&B business in Sarlat, Périgord. 

The 13-14th century building was, historic, massive and absolutely impressive, but in an obvious state of disrepair, with temperamental locks and old fashion keys all different for each door, some stealthy and dangerous steps at every corner, freezing temperatures at night and in the early morning devoid of any source of heating at all, a very old-fashioned bathroom,  a quasi-unusable garage for our rental car, and a more than anemic WiFi service. 

To offset this dire reality, the man running the place along with his wife, were both charming and helpful as much as they could muster and stood as a ray of sunshine too cheer us up. It’s true these problems were revealed to us as we were still desperately waiting for our missing luggage which was rendering our stay miserable a nice euphemism to say ruining our vacation!