Saturday 26th September - Comfit au Canard The choices were amazing and we had a 3 course for €18 and the choices were wonderful. I chose the Comfit au Canard for my main course which was amazing when it arrived and the duck actually fell to bits.

Saturday 26th September - Dinner at Le Cathare We had a booking and wandered along about 7.20pm and there was no one else at tables when we arrived. We had a nice table and Jan had a view of the huge open fire that we found out the chef used for cooking the steaks. There was a fire flaming away about 600mm above the floor of the oven and the coals dropped down onto the flat hearth underneath. That's what the chef cooked the steaks on. after he had cut them o...

Friday 25th September - Croisieres-Repas sur le Midi We paid for our lunch trip and bought back memories of the lunch trip that we did with Jane & Paul on the Briare Canal in 2004. Lots of French people and us. Well as it turned out there was a couple from Scotland on board and initially they were sitting behind us but the attendant saw that we were turning round and talking to them so he asked us to shift to a table for the four of us. David and Mari...

Friday 25th September - Canal du Midi We had decided to take a trip on one of the canal boats the take tours up and down the Midi Canal so we headed for the Port de Carcassonne which was about a 20 minute walk from our apartment. We got to the port area and there are about 20 canal boats tied up to the quays. One was even sporting a New Zealand flag. We watched a couple of large canal boats waiting in the lock at the end of the harbour. One had on board a...

Friday 25th September - Morning Coffee and La Poste We got up a bit late today and had the normal breakfast and Jane rang to say they were home. We went out and around the corner to the cafe that gave us great coffee yesterday and guess what the coffee wasn't so great today. We met 3 couples from New Zealand at the coffee shop and talked to them for ages. They were off by taxi in a few minutes to go to Agens to pick up a Locaboat for two weeks. I must say...