BRING OUT THE SUPERHERO IN YOU
Everything has been minutely planned: up at the crack of dawn, substantial breakfast,
helmet, compass, bicycle pump, headlamp, water bottle and that lethal weapon: the
pen that you’re always losing. Now the globetrotter racers can all be let loose
in the Périgord (Périgord Pourpre, Périgord Blanc, Périgord Noir, Périgord Vert
– it’s never the same from one year to the next) – and it’s “Run for your life !”.
The dreaded countdown has begun. Five days of sheer folly. With no stopping they
are required to plunge into caves, faults and cavities (sometimes into freezing
cold water), fly “Tarzan-like” down a zip-line from the top of the façade of a mediaeval
building, play Spiderman on a king-size net thrown over Monbazillac castle, wade
through mud baths amongst the pigs – and all that in search of a relic from earliest
antiquity, the emblem of the goddess of grain and fertility: the legendary billhook
of Eymet, kept in a secret and holy place.
VENUS, KHRONOS AND PAQUITO
Not necessarily aware of the call of Venus, the goddess of gardens and of love,
and with tyrannical Khronos, the god of time, egging them on in concrete terms,
our one hundred and fifty racers leave no stone unturned as they explore the ground
beneath each of the vines in South Bergerac. When all comes to all it is a team
from Sorges, the land of truffles, that, in an amazingly thrilling final, manage
to lay their hands on the famous billhook buried in a rock shelter overlooking the
Dropt valley.
After the race everyone was rewarded for their courage and enthusiasm
while the “Ré d’Urgence Banda” from Eymet struck up an unforgettable “Paquito” with
all the participants joining in with all the energy they had got left. Then all
of a sudden everything vanished into thin air: the tents, the canteen, the bikes,
the canoes and the whole rainbow-coloured tribe of assistants and organizers. In
a split second peace and quiet had returned to the village of Le Bretou - but it
was all a bit disconcerting and you felt sad and speechless, like when you see migratory
birds flying overhead and you dream of their southern destination and shiver at
the thought of our winter.
THE FILM OF THE RAID: 45 minutes of action-packed events you can relive to the full
Yes, it really did happen… and FERRASSIE-TV was there to film it! We are pleased
to remind you that, like last year, the four episodes of the Périgord Raid Aventure
can be downloaded on the Conseil Général de la Dordogne website
– and it’s free of charge.
And for those of you who would like to obtain the high resolution DVD
in its presentation box and show the film of the adventure on your home cinema or
on your television, sharing all the great moments with family and friends, you can
order it here and we will
be happy to send it to you.
Sophie Cattoire
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