If you like shopping, flea-markets or jazz concerts, canoeing or just wandering around a lovely riverside town, then you love Bergerac. The jazz concerts every Wednesday in summer are free. The shops are small but exquisite and the restaurants in the old quarter have generous menus at very reasonable prices. Of the vineyards that surround the town, Péchamant, a small group of vineyards tucked away to the north of Bergerac, produces a particularly good red wine and Monbazillac to the south, produces a semi-sweet white wine, delicious on its own and especially good with foie gras or pastries.

Beaumont is a 13th century hilltop bastide about 7 kms away that has marvellous views over the countryside and about 20 kms from here is Monpazier, perhaps one of the loveliest and most classically laid out of all the bastide villages. Further along the river towards Sarlat are others, dominated by their great fortress castles.