Sunday 27th September - Medieval City We had by 1.00pm just about covered all of the areas that we hadn't seen previously and felt that it was time for lunch so we headed back to Place Marcou and thought that we wouldn't have any trouble finding a table amongst all the tables that were previously unoccupied. Wrong! We finally found a table, number 21, at the back of La Maison de la Blanquette and got the menus. Both of us decided that one course today wou...

Sunday 27th September - Beer Time in Place Marcou All of this walking made us hot enough to stop and have a beer at one of the 10-12 cafes in the Place Marcou. The young man that served us was rather nice and Jannie wanted to leave him a tip. The surrounding tables were all French people out for a Sunday and what better way to spend a Sunday that to sit in the shade with a glass of cold beer. People were doing the same as us just wandering about and looki...

Sunday 27th September - Narbonne Gate We thought that there may not be as many people up there as there had been on our previous visit but alas there were probably more. The sculptures outside the main entrance were not there this morning so may have been something only for the day last Thursday. We wandered up the hill, sidestepping the people and watching the cobbles and of course the ditch in the middle of the path that is there to take the water when ...

Sunday 27th September - Old City Again We had decided to go back up to La Cite as we did not see all of it when we went up there last Thursday. Jannie also wanted to get a couple of things that she had seen and as the town where we had our apartment was closed for the Sunday it really is the only place to go. We hiked over the bridge and up the hill and the sun was getting hotter and all of the way to the Cite it was directly in our eyes.

Sunday 27th September - Coffee and Chat We were up a bit earlier this morning and after breakfast went into our favourite square for morning coffee. Neither of the two cafes we had been to was open, so we sat in the sun at the very next one. There wasn't much choice as there was little open. We ordered our coffees and chatted to a British couple who live not too far away from Carcassonne and were just having a weekend here. They were interested in where w...