After a lovely stay in Uzès, we joined our host Christophe, Monique was in Paris helping decorate a friends home, 
for a French breakfast which consisted of baguette, bread, croissant, Pain a Chocolate, butter, orange juice, fresh strawberries and French press coffee. Damn, that’s good stuff!
Ok, on the road to Carcassonne, 3 hours down the road through the base of the Pyrenees mountains. Carcassonne is a World History sight, also a UNESCO sight. It is a walled city completely preserved. It has been a trading sight since 500BC as the river Aude flows to the ocean and links the Atlantic and the Mediterranean sea.
You can probably guess who took it over around AD, right the Romans! Again, the walled city had many occupants and wars and finally fell into total disregard in the 1800’s. Napoleons crew wanted to tear it down, but the French up-roared and the city was put under renovations. Another huge uproar was the chef architect in charge of renovating the city used the wrong material for the roofs.
Off with his head, all was completed and today it’s a big shopping mall with restaurants and shops, hotels filling the city, as the tour buses roll in.
Cindy tells me to ignore the people and visualize the town in 500 AD 😳
Cindy, our tour guide, and the trusty Peugeot, are taking us over the mighty Pyrenees tomorrow on a 6 hour trip to beautiful Barcelona. I’m dreaming of a Sangria on the patio 👍🍷😎
Au revoir from France 🥖
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