This is an amazing place, so high and so steep that it is difficult to walk around. Firstly you park your car at the bottom of the hill and catch a train (little motor vehicle pulling carriages decked out like a train) up to the top. It is a bastide which is a walled town built during the 12th and 13th centuries to keep out the warring factions - alternately the crusaders sent by the Pope to oust the Cathars and later the English and so on in the hundred years war. It is now mainly a tourist precinct with lots of restaurants and outlets for the various craftspersons - jewellery, leatherwork, wood work, art and even a special knife maker. I bought a small pocket knife which I must remember not to keep in my hand luggage.
You have an amazing view of the beautiful countryside from the walls at the edge of the town. I took photos but they dont really show the depth of distance etc.
Sorry I didnt get all the photos on here I wanted to and some got doubled up. I like the one of the lads mending the wall. I wonder how many times that has been done over the years. The photos do not do justice to this place. I will go back again with Lyn et al and maybe I can do better when not struggling up and down the cobblestones with the children.
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