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Someone has badly parked their washing machine

Someone has badly parked their washing machine

The boys play in a fountain

Isobel's got something stuck in her sock

The markets of Carcassonne, in Place Carnot

Harry stands near some giant melons

A fancy fountain in Place Carnot

More fruit stalls, and the ever-present pharmacie

Fred's in heaven with his ice cream

Harry stands in the Place Carnot

It rains for a bit, so the boys run around again

Isobel smiles to herself at the Maison Bor

Harry stares at nougat

Piles of nougat

Another old shop-sign relic, for Gazaniol

Nice City of Carcassonne cast-iron-work

The gang inspects some sculptures in an exhibition

The boys look at fish

More markets in Les Halles Prosper Montagné

Isobel buys some stuff in a boulangerie

Fred and Harry mess around in a fish shop

We walk back under the umbrellas

We have left-over pizza for lunch

Lunch on the patio

The town of Lagrasse

How French could it get: a 2CV trundles past

The Community School of Lagrasse

A couple of French snails slide around

Harry and Isobel on the main street in Lagrasse

Quaintly-decaying shop sign

Back alleys of Lagrasse

The old market square

A cobbled back street

The gang walk the cobbled streets of Lagrasse

A view over the river

Isobel on the bridge

Harry peers over the bridge

Harry spots a door into the mountain with God on it

There's some sort of radical book sale going on

The boys run up some steps

Up in the former monks' dormitory

Harry looks at some stones

The boys look at exhibits

This boat is related to the stripes on La Cité

On the river

An inconvenient public convenience

The Abbaye of Lagrasse

Walking down some steep cobbled streets

A French cat gives us the hairy eyeball

Inside the Eglise Saint Michel

There's a very yappy small dog outside the church

The boys eat ice cream

Fred is sad his ice cream doesn't measure up

A shop full of fancy olive oils

A dude in spectacularly-blue robes sells jewellry

France still has hole-in-the-floor bogs

Hanging around outside an Epicerie

We head back to the car

Harry on the path at the house

The boys on the path

Back at the house, we play cards for a bit

The view of La Cité from the house

Isobel reads a magazine as a bedtime story

We arrive early when the beach isn't yet too busy

Fred checks the water out

Fred hurls himself in

Harry starts building a sandcastle

Flaking out on the 'beach'

When it gets too hot, we retire to the woods for a picnic

Harry looks out from our eyrie

Harry leans on a tree

The boys run around on top of a hill

Harry has a drink

Sunlight through the trees

We explore further up the lake

Harry gets a slushy

Harry's tongue is super-bright red/orange

Massed pedalos

Fred chases grasshoppers

We find a nice green beetle on a stick

Harry and Fred scramble down a hillside

Standing surfboard-canoe things and some ducks

We rug up with life jackets

We hire a pedalo for half an hour

The beach is now heaving, as seen from the pedalo

Some dude practices water-skiing

Fred does a pout

Harry feeds the ducks

Harry sort-of-snorkels about

It's churro time

Isobel roams around with a cucumber in Carrefour

Sometimes translations can be a bit dodgy

Cool 'hand pan' buskers near the Porte d'Aude

Fred and Harry play with Lego at Le Crèneau

There's a Peugeot 204 convertible in the square

Dinner time at another restaurant

The boys mess around some more

The boys in the square

Harry is surprised by something

Harry has a think about what to draw

The château Comtal and the restaurant Le St. Jean

Wandering back through the sodium lights

A solitary car waits at the bottom of an apartment block