Our first stop this morning was supposed to be Albi’s version of the LIDL, but as we were driving there team Basil was tempted, en route, by a huge Carrefour. We are running low on one of our two LPG…
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…
They teach them young in France
This morning we had our first real taste of autumn. As we drove north through the wooded and undulating Gascon countryside, a thick mist shrouded everything. After an hour or so the mist began to burn off and we were…