The Daily Diary of a Wandering Restaurateur
Outward Bound

The Souillac market was very local, very French and very good -- big enough to have a good selection and small enough that we could find what we were looking for fairly easily.

Martel, the Town of Seven Towers, was small but an OK place to wander through with a couple of exceptional specialty shops ... and one very cool public toilet. After each use, the place automatically cleaned itself and made ready for the next patron. We saw first these in Paris. There they had a charge, here it was free.

For me, the highlight in Martel was stumbling upon a renovation in progress. Our first guess was that the workers had gone to lunch and just left the place open, so we brazenly wandered in. But then I noticed there were no tools lying about so who knows? I could see the potential of the place ... and also the tremendous amount of work it was going to take to bring it back to life.

Carennac was a pretty spot ... and pretty hot by the time we got there. Maybe I'm just starting to feel my age, but I found the idea of a cold beer on a shady patio more appealing than wandering through stone streets looking at more stone houses.

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