Camping Lanmary

Truffle fans needn’t stray far for a taste: the village of Sorges, 10 minutes’ drive away, has what must be the world’s only museum devoted to the pungent fungi, and 20 minutes away the Maison du Foie Gras in Thiviers is a magnet for pilgrims of pâté. A similar distance, operating between 6am and lunchtime, the daily food markets in Périgueux are a must for all foodies and gastronomes. Périgueux has more than provisions to pull you in though: potter round the Périgord Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Vesunna Gallo-Roman site, play spot the difference at Saint-Front Cathedral (modelled on a certain St Mark’s Basilica of Venice), or canoe your way right through the city and beyond on the Isle river. If you’re up for more historical wanderings, head to Villars (half an hour), whose ruined medieval abbey contrasts starkly with the Château de Puyguilhem, a building so well restored you’d think the Renaissance was yesterday... A little way outside town, the Grottes de Villars present a stalactite-filled network of caves, heavily decorated by their prehistoric former residents; for diehard Palaeolithic art addicts, the better-known sites of Font-de-Gaume and Lascaux are 40 and 50 minutes away.