Our hosts in Carcassonne market square. Not a blueberry in sight. Too late up this morning. Lots of wine last night and wild boar meat.

Patrick with his parrain (Tonton). At Lac de Jouares. We swam in the lake and it felt a bit cold. We swam out to the pontoon with Christian and myself assisting Patrick. Great sunshine and an indication of how fun this will be during the summer.

Getting hire car. The sun is shining. Yipeeeeee!!

On our way

At Arcs 2000 we had lunch with the Paddle family. Brilliant food and company for what was to be our last day skiing of this holiday. What on earth was I going to write about? Then we discovered the ski jump with a balloon landing area. "Can I go on it" asked Patrick. And he did it three times. Great fun. I must not forget to note my 'another' mega wipe out. This time at the end of number 2 of a three jump set (I bottled on the third). The main thing is that the...