Limoges Large city with many beautiful buildings and designer shops; St. Martial is a pleasant shopping centre.
Angouleme Angouleme is an 'old town/city, full of character and very charming.
Perigueux, City with many beautiful buildings and designer shops.
Piegut-pluviers (5-10mins.) A small market town has several,pleasant reasonably priced restaurants (Market day is Wednesday... go early)
Cussac (10 mins.) Has a lovely restaurant (you may need to book though)
La Rochechouart (10 mins.) Several restauants and pizzeria
St.JulienNorth of La Rochouart is (30 mins.) from La Chabroulie on the outskirts of Limoges, there is a large commercial centre with several Hypermarkets
St. Mathieu (5mins.) has a couple of bar/cafes (a new english bar/cafe recently opened),a bank, post office, boulangerie, hardware store,newsagent and a small supermarket with petrol station and at 'Le Lac de St. Mathieu', a restaurant/bar which has various watersport activities...