Someone has badly parked their washing machine
Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse and The Lac de la Cavayère, Aude, France - 10th August
A couple of days in and we decide it's time to go a bit further out, following up on a suggestion from the house owner to visit the mediaeval Abbey town of Lagrasse, some 40km away. But before that, there's time for a wander around the markets in Carcassonne. After that, it's time to do a bit of swimming at what is generally known as Carcassonne's beach - the Lac de la Cavayére, just a few miles outside the city. The swimming is fantastic as it's fresh water, calm and most of all actually warm.
next album: Le Gouffre Géant and Grotte de Limousis, Petanque and a Lightning Storm, Languedoc, France - 12th August 2018
previous album: A Trip to Carcassonne, Aude, France - 7th August 2018
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
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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