Carcassonne, here we come.

Saturday is market day so we head off for a mouch. The first one is full of fruit and veg, cheese and olives. A fairly large market and very popular with the locals. The next one is more clothes, belts, handbags and odd and sods. It has an African/Moroccan feel to it.
We then head into town for a drink while we decide what to do next.

Decision made we're heading to the canal for a boat trip. We go for the City trip including two locks. A lovely sedate trip with commentary in English. Not too much to see and the view of the Medieval City was from quite a distance but pleasant enough in the sunshine. We arrive at the first lock to be greeted by the lock keeper, no winders and pushing against the lock gates here it's all done electrically with the push of a button . We sail through the lock and immediately turn around and return through the same lock, felt a bit cheated but the leaflet didn't say 2 different locks.

Back to the central plaza for refreshments before shopping for tea and home for a restful evening.

Ye another pleasant day in Carcassonne.Читать далее

After a lazy morning catching up on emails and FB we headed out to The Plaza Carnot for lunch, very civilised sitting outside to eat in the sunshine in October.

We then colllected our towels and swimming costumes, ordered a taxi and head out to Lac de la Cavayere just a few kilometres away. The taxi driver was hilarious, he spoke quite good English and was telling us how he loved Princess Diana but not so much King Charles and his was dishing the dirt on President Macron. He also agreed the French can't, make beer 'it's piss' his words not ours.

Lac de la Cavayère is an artificial lake close to the mediaeval town of Carcassonne. also known as Carcassonne Plage, and was created by the building of a 23 metre high dam in 1988 after severe forest fires affected the area in 1985.

We walk down to the sandy beach and have a paddle, nowhere to change so no chance of a swim. We then take a walk around the lake watching people on the zip wires and climbing ropes high above us. We also saw a red Dragonfly, never seen one of those before

It's a lovely place with quite few people but nowhere to get a drink or ice cream so we head home using the same taxi driver.

Tonight Fiona and Mart walked up to the bridge to take some pictures of the Medieval City all lit up.Читать далее