Hotel Premiere Classe Carcassonne

... was ****in awesome... google it to see what I mean... the craziest part about it is that people still live there...in the city! it is about 3 km around the whole thing, it is super cute inside, there are cafès and shops, a church and many old old buildnig where people still live!<br>We walked back to the hotel later and relaxed, then we went on a hunt for the grocery store, to our surprise, the "casino" across the highway was the store, Casino is just the name for the super ...

... to walk to the medeival city...which it turns out we passed on the way but couldn't really see because of the fog. So we walked the 1 km (which I think was more) back to the city. It was pretty cool. Its a small city contained within its original medeival walls within the modern city of carcassonne. Within the walls are a bunch of little shops, restaurants, cafes, even a hotel, and there is also a population of 120 people that live within the walls. It ...

... i was ready to continue. A slow start to the day with the first 3.5km taking well over an hour (including breaks), the next 26.5km took only an hour. <br><br> Glancing backward, I saw that the mountains were in cloud and still wouldn't give me a clear view. <br><br>Watching the last of the foothills recede from view it was smooth sailing with a tailwind and all, but all couldn't go that easily could it?<br><br>Being quite ...

... every place where we have stayed for only one night. Claude and his family were very nice and we were very welcomed in their home. We took a group picture and then began the short jaunt to Carcassonne. We were their in 45 minutes. The view from the highway was spectacular!! I would have loved to have gotten a picture from there, but alas, I did not. The city started as a ...

... I hope the photos turned out. Outside the castle are some vineyards; I am in France. <br><br>Two of my roommates are med school students from the Czech Republic. It is extremely expensive for them to travel in France which they are doing for a month. They have hitch hiked there way everywhere. I suggested that rather than walking to the perimeter of a city (which is where they start their hitchhiking) that this would be good use of E1 on a public bus to save time. They agreed.

... the heat and the tourists which flock during the summer. One must question why on earth they moved there in the first place. Anyhow, they were hilarious without meaning to be. It wasn't said, but I bet they travel with a pack of Yorkshire Tea everywhere they go, further to which I was quite disappointed they didn't call French/Spanish food 'foreign muck', I'm absolutely sure it was on the tip of ...

... one of the bridges, locals strolled the lovely trails along the Aude and picnicked. The place exuded the happy peacefulness of people content in their lives. Note* All of these pictures are a bonus. Yesterday, I took three photos when I arrived, and then the last camera battery went dead. I scoured the village. Nothing. I found out if I put the dead ones back in, I could squeeze 2-3 more photos out of each!

... very Quaker... I was very surprised to see shops selling Provençal products (fabrics, soaps, olive products), as this is a very different region. We had hoped to take a tour of the citadel, but Maxime found out too late that they must be booked a good month in advance. We definitely would have gained much more from the experience with a competent guide. The kids sort of whizzed through the museum and took lots of photos of themselves. We caved in and gave ...

... the younger sons got nothing. So there were lots of younger sons looking for ways to get lands of their own. Many knights headed south for the crusade. At the siege of Béziers in 1209, the Catholic Abbot and Army commander told his men to kill everyone in the town. When he was told that there were Catholics as well as Cathars inside, he famously said "kill them all, the Lord will recognize his own." They killed or enslaved everyone inside and ...