Thursday 17th April 2025 Today we had a change of plan. It had been our intention to visit a town called Montauban. When I read about it in my Rough Guide it seemed as if it had no great highlights…
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…
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…
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…