Three Months in France March 31 – June 28, 2007

Today’s Photos

Today we took a long hour and a half drive to the city of Carcassonne. The pictures can tell most of the story but it was a great day. The weather started off foggy and cool but it soon burned off and it was really sunny and warm by the time we got to the city. Liam and Emma were very excited to search for Knights and Princesses in the Giant Castle within the walled city. We did see some Knights and wenches about and a real Owl…very cool!

It was very busy with plenty of tourists and school tours as we first stopped for some lunch and ice cream before we went on to tour the castle. We were very happy to find no dog poop on the cobblestone roads as there were a few dogs around. Strange thing is that cars were even driving through this place…The roads are so narrow and full of people, I don’t know why they bother. Tonnes of shops, restaurants and even some haunted houses to go through.

I will gripe about one thing…public washrooms. Eeewwww! I have to say that France is not good with public washrooms. First of all, finding one in a city can be difficult. In the city of Carcasonne, a tourist attraction, there were a few to be found, however, they were horrible! No toilet paper, some of them with no seats and terribly dirty. They have washrooms that are supposedlly self sanitising (they spray themselves down in between customers)…but I wouldn’t touch anything in them. Really, really poorly maintained. I am shuddering as I reminisce for this blog.

Ah well, the day was great even still. After wandering around we stumbled across a small grassy courtyard where we rested and the kids ran around for awhile, burning off that extra energy just before the car ride home. All of us had a great day and topped it off with some pizza at home for dinner. Even the store bought, frozen pizza’s in France are way better than some restaurant pizzas I’ve had in Canada!

Tomorrow we stay at home and catch up on some work!