This week we had a day out in the Lot with some French friends. We diverted into one village where they make "epi de faitage" - they are decorative finnials in ceramic or stone at the apex of a roof. I had never heard of them or really noticed them at all but now I am seeing them everywhere.
It was a day for discovering new things - we had travelled into the Lot especially to go to a restaurant which specialises in a traditional dish called Le Mique an interesting variation on a petit salé. The restuarant was packed, everyone eating the speciality dish and not an English voice to be heard.
The afternoon destination was another tiny village to see the Zadkine museum. We had heard of Ossip Zadkine as he had lived near our home for part of his life but were not really familiar with his work. The museum had some really impressive wooden and bronze sculptures.
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| This beauty was carved from a tree found by Zadkine at Caylus just a5 kms or so from us ( apparently the largest he ever used) |
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