A view over the city walls
The Château Comtal, Lastours and the Journey Home, Carcassonne, Aude, France - 14th August 2018
Luckily we'd bought the combined "sounds and lights show with entry to Château Comtal" tickets a couple of days before, as the queue to get in otherwise was fairly epic. But, having skipped the queues to get in, we still get to join the other queues of people milling around the route around the castle-within-a-castle. Then, after a quick return to the house we set off for a trip around Lastours - a mediaeval village famous for its four Cathar castles all clustered together on a hill. Then it's the journey home, via the Casino hypermarché on the edge of Carcassonne to pick up a new carry-on case for Isobel, and a bunch of saucisson.
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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
Harry and Isobel queue up in Toto Gelato
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 bedroom
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
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
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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
Harry and Isobel queue up in Toto Gelato
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 bedroom
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
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