The Garonne and the Dordogne

Sunday and I will have caught up to date!

This morning was a very solemn one for us  as we visited the WWII destroyed French town of Oradour-sur-Glane. On 10th June 1944 a Waffen-SS company  entered this town and, in supposed reprisals for Resistance action in the area, destroyed the entire village and killed the 642 residents.


190 village men were gunned down and then burnt to death.





Then all the women and children were locked in the church, an incendiary device set off beside the building and the women and children gunned down as they tried to escape. In all 247 women and 205 children were killed. Indescribable that men should instigate such horror boggles the mind! This is the church, still standing in solemn memory of those who perished within and without its walls.


Charles De Gaulle ordered that the town be left exactly as it was found after the massacre and destruction and so it stands today, as a memorial to the act perpetrated in June 1944
This is the altar of the church.



Our morning was not fun therefore but I felt we had to go and pay homage to those poor unfortunates, a town that had stood for centuries, wiped out overnight by animals.




 This was a bakery or a butcher's shop.

Silence was the order of the day for all visitors to this place.







Upon returning to Cognac we had the answer to our cognac tour and taste testing, Hennessy.





Smooth tasting - Hennessy VSOP and Hennessey  XO.

Lastly tonight we went into town and ate at the Le Coq D'or - only the Rhodies among us will appreciate that!