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Few days away in Carcassonne with family for 5 days
Any tips for the area - ?
Will be using public transport and hire bikes .
Great basketwork.
Great saucisson sec made with bull meat.
Flamingos.
APF
There's a big lake just outside town for swimming in which is fantastic on a hot day.
Check public transport from the airport. When we were there it was very intermittent.
This year? There's a shortish bike ride to a nearby lake for a dip if it's warm enough. Excursion to Castelnaudary (cassoulet central) along Canal du Midi and train ride back.
Thanks all
Quite fancy the canal ride and train back
Lots of activities on the lake and a go ape thing as well.
Not sûre i would spend 5 days there with Kids.
We visited an interesting cave (guided tour around it). We drove from Carcassone though so no idea how bikeable it is.
grotte-de-limousis
Great saucisson sec made with bull meat.
Flamingos.
Also flat as a pancake and infested with flies and mozzies, but that's enough about the Camargue. 😉
Cassoulet, more cassoulet and then more* washed down with too much of the heavy local wines: Malepere, Corbières, Cabardès. No wafer thin mint to follow and not even a thought of a light pedal to digest all that!
I'd have suggested going to see a proper southern French rugby match, but going to see Carcassonne almost definitely lose at home on a Friday night might not be worth it. They're currently sitting just off the bottom of the second division.
*The trinity of cassoulet: Toulouse, Castelnaudary and Carcassonne. All three have slightly different variations and declare to be the authentic one.
Landed there to drive to a tiny village called Guitalens for a holiday 19 years ago, some of the roads had amazing surfaces compared to what we often have in the UK, due to Tour De France apparently.
Holidayed about 12km north of there a few years ago in the hills (Las Tours (old forts there are really worth a look and I'm sure kids would enjoy scrambling about: have a google - in les Montagnes Noire, which get up around 1200m from memory). Hired a road bike and mtb from a place in Carcassonne, and agree the roads are good, with the D101 through Lastours a nice long slow 1000m climb (I think I still have a KoM for some bits of mtb singletrack on the hill it goes up. Just saying). Offroad there's a certain amount. I used strava and google for ideas but it was a bit hit and miss. (A fail to unclip teeter on the edge of a precipice may colour my memories somewhat.) Lakes were good for swimming, I think end of August, but it was pretty hot.
Carcassonne itself, as in the largely reconstructed medieval citadel, is worth a couple of afternoons for poking round shops and cafes, and with the crowds it draws (in semi high season at least) I've thought would be perfect for losing offspring. I liked the newer town too, which is just classic french town. We flew into Toulouse and hired a car so daytripped further afield.)
Take a set of this game to while away a wet rainy day:
and remember that the game is usually won by the farmers...