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A view over the city walls

A view over the city walls

Down in La Cité

Isobel gives the hairy eyeball

We're back at the café Le St. Jean

Fred makes out his coke bottles are binoculars

Harry does the binocular thing

In the Lices of Carcassonne

There's a model of the Cité in the Château museum

A view over the city

Looking down on the path up to the Porte d'Aude

There's a massive queue for tickets

A view of Le St. Jean, and one of the Roman towers

Vintage columns

Harry in a stone window

Fred is just like the statue

Nice mediaeval paintings

A big stone font

A nice alternate view of the concentric circles

A fancy hotel/restaurant within the walls

The big amphitheatre near the Eglise Saint Nazaire

It's very non-built-up right up to the castle walls

We're in Toto Gelato ice cream shop

Harry and Isobel queue up for ice cream

Fred eats his ice cream

Harry and Isobel outside Toto Gelato

The tourist train passes us on the hill

Fred makes some sunglasses with his bendy pencil

There's an interesting dragonfly down on the river

On the concrete bridge over the River Aude

The boys in the river: nature and the urban setting

On the street that runs behind the house

Fred's got a good way of getting into the house

Fred and Harry make a film and sell tickets for it

Isobel makes an omlette in the 1960s kitchen

The boys are on the tablet

Classic pink 1970s bathroom

Our bedrooms

Fred's room

Looking down on Isobel slurping a beer

Isobel films the snail race

A bunch of parsley is meant to be a snail incentive

Doha, the owner's dog, comes back to visit

Isobel and Fred at Lastours

A bus shelter on a cliff

The attractive hilltop town of Lastours

Down at the old foundry/kiln thing

A derelict building next to tourist information

Some boiler pipes

The mayor's office

A small tiled hut on the side of the road

Harry roams around the café

Time for lunch at bakery/café

Café life

The boys dig out some toys from the box

We head off after lunch

Walking back to the car

The four Cathar castles

Bellevue, where all four Cathar castles can be seen

Isobel takes a photo

Fred on the peeper-scope

Fred uses the telescope

Fred's up a tree, as Harry roams around

Isobel sits and watches

Isobel and Harry have a go with the telescope

Cabaret, Tour Regine, Quertinheux and Surdespine

Isobel and Harry look at the castles

We walk back from the viewing spot

Walking the dusty tracks of Lastours

Back at the bakery, a pet mink appears

Isobel looks for luggage in Casino hypermarché

The boys look for toys to buy

Fred's found a stash of Lego

Fred points at a load of fish and seafood

Hanging around in Casino Hypermarché

Isobel looks at Saucisson

A derelict café in the Casino hypermarket

The massive and half-empty Casino Géant

Back at Carcassonne's tiny airport

Fred and Harry play with Lego

A luggage tug sits around doing not much

The boys play around

Waiting for our plane to land

Our plane arrives - one of about two flights a day

Our plane rocks up

The boys on an extended zebra crossing

Totally hi-tech sign pointing us the right way

The traditional boarding scrum of Ruinair

The plane looks out to the hills

Harry is bored