Our drive from Carcassonne to Albi was almost entirely on side roads, which should have taken us over a small extension of the Massif Central, with magnificent dramatic views. Instead we had heavy rain, low clouds and had to negotiate…
Carcassonne, the City so good they visited it twice
Let’s talk Cathars and Bastides. Not in any great detail, but they are going to crop up in the next few blogs so I should explain the outlines. Without going into theology, which was probably ill defined, the Cathars were…
Rainy Day in Carcassonne
Yesterday at Palau-del-Vidre was a fairly lazy day. We had another walk around the lake and much to our excitement witnessed people using what looked like a kind of unsupervised “Go Ape”. All sorts of vertigo inducing obstacles strung between…
Joyeux Anniversaire à toi, Joyeux Anniversaire à toi, Joyeux Anniversaire
No surprise that Stevie Wonder sang it in English. The title may be a clue that someone has had a birthday, but more of that later. Yesterday we drove further towards Spain along the Mediterranean coast. We first stopped at…