We arrive early when the beach isn't yet too busy
The Lac de la Cavayère, Carcassonne, Aude, France - 10th August
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. It's also quite possibly Nosher's first return visit since 1980
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Isobel and Harry do the first test swim
Fred hurls himself in
Fred bobs about
Harry starts building a sandcastle
Flaking out on the 'beach'
When it gets too hot, we retire to the woods for a picnic
The boys run around on top of a hill
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 hire a pedalo for half an hour
The beach is now heaving, as seen from the pedalo
Some dude practices water-skiing on something that resembles a zipwire
Harry feeds the ducks
It's churro time
Isobel roams around with a cucumber in the local Carrefour supermarket
Sometimes translations can be a bit dodgy
Near the Porte d'Aude are some cool 'hand pan' buskers
Fred and Harry play with Lego at the Le Crèneau restaurant
There's a really nice old Peugeot 204 convertible in the square
Harry slurps apple juice
Harry has a think about what to draw
The château Comtal and the restaurant Le St. Jean
Wandering back through the sodium lights
There's a blur of people near the Porte d'Aude
A solitary car waits at the bottom of an apartment block
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We arrive early when the beach isn't yet too busy