October 2009: Limoges…

On this trip I had driven down a few days ahead of the family (reduced by one due to no half terms at university) and picked them up from Limoges airport on the Saturday morning. Despite having flown in and out of Limoges 20 to 30 times we had never been into the town centre. The outskirts are not enticing and we normally make a quick exit! On this occasion we drove into the centre, parked in another amazingly compact underground car park, and found a lovely town square.

 This small island of ‘old town’ is such a change from the industrial outskirts.

There are several streets worth exploring and a covered market with the usual impressive selection of fresh vegetables, fish and meat. It wasn’t however cheap.