title	The Château Comtal, Lastours and the Journey Home, Carcassonne, Aude, France - 14th August 2018
intro	Luckily we'd bought the combined "sounds and lights show with entry to Château Comtal" tickets a couple of days before, as the queue to get in otherwise was fairly epic. But, having skipped the queues to get in, we still get to join the other queues of people milling around the route around the castle-within-a-castle. Then, after a quick return to the house we set off for a trip around Lastours - a mediaeval village famous for its four Cathar castles all clustered together on a hill. Then it's the journey home, via the Casino hypermarché on the edge of Carcassonne to pick up a new carry-on case for Isobel, and a bunch of saucisson.
imgp3919	A view over the city walls
imgp3921	Down in La Cité
imgp3922	Isobel gives the hairy eyeball
imgp3925	We're back at the café Le St. Jean
imgp3928	Fred makes out his coke bottles are binoculars
imgp3930	Harry does the binocular thing
imgp3932	In the Lices of Carcassonne
imgp3934	There's a model of the Cité in the Château museum
imgp3936	A view over the city
imgp3943	Looking down on the path up to the Porte d'Aude
imgp3945	There's a massive queue for tickets
imgp3947	A view of Le St. Jean, and one of the Roman towers
imgp3956	Vintage columns
imgp3958	Harry in a stone window
imgp3959	Fred is just like the statue
imgp3961	Nice mediaeval paintings
imgp3963	A big stone font
imgp3969	A nice alternate view of the concentric circles
imgp3970	A fancy hotel/restaurant within the walls
imgp3974	The big amphitheatre near the Eglise Saint Nazaire
imgp3977	It's very non-built-up right up to the castle walls
imgp3979	We're in Toto Gelato ice cream shop
imgp3980	Harry and Isobel queue up for ice cream
imgp3981	Fred eats his ice cream
imgp3983	Harry and Isobel outside Toto Gelato
imgp3984	The tourist train passes us on the hill
imgp3986	Fred makes some sunglasses with his bendy pencil
imgp3992	There's an interesting dragonfly down on the river
imgp4000	On the concrete bridge over the River Aude
imgp4003	The boys in the river: nature and the urban setting
imgp4006	On the street that runs behind the house
imgp4007	Fred's got a good way of getting into the house
imgp4009	Fred and Harry make a film and sell tickets for it
imgp4012	Isobel makes an omlette in the 1960s kitchen
imgp4014	The boys are on the tablet
imgp4015	Classic pink 1970s bathroom
imgp4016	Our bedrooms
imgp4017	Fred's room
imgp4020	Looking down on Isobel slurping a beer
imgp4021	Isobel films the snail race
imgp4028	A bunch of parsley is meant to be a snail incentive
imgp4030	Doha, the owner's dog, comes back to visit
imgp4034	Isobel and Fred at Lastours
imgp4036	A bus shelter on a cliff
imgp4041	The attractive hilltop town of Lastours
imgp4044	Down at the old foundry/kiln thing
imgp4045	A derelict building next to tourist information
imgp4046	Some boiler pipes
imgp4047	The mayor's office
imgp4048	A small tiled hut on the side of the road
imgp4049	Harry roams around the café
imgp4051	Time for lunch at bakery/café
imgp4054	Café life
imgp4055	The boys dig out some toys from the box
imgp4057	We head off after lunch
imgp4059	Walking back to the car
imgp4062	The four Cathar castles
imgp4064	Bellevue, where all four Cathar castles can be seen
imgp4067	Isobel takes a photo
imgp4070	Fred on the peeper-scope
imgp4072	Fred uses the telescope
imgp4078	Fred's up a tree, as Harry roams around
imgp4079	Isobel sits and watches
imgp4083	Isobel and Harry have a go with the telescope
imgp4089	Cabaret, Tour Regine, Quertinheux and Surdespine
imgp4091	Isobel and Harry look at the castles
imgp4103	We walk back from the viewing spot
imgp4104	Walking the dusty tracks of Lastours
imgp4107	Back at the bakery, a pet mink appears
imgc2153	Isobel looks for luggage in Casino hypermarché
imgc2154	The boys look for toys to buy
imgc2155	Fred's found a stash of Lego
imgc2156	Fred points at a load of fish and seafood
imgc2157	Hanging around in Casino Hypermarché
imgc2158	Isobel looks at Saucisson
imgc2159	A derelict café in the Casino hypermarket
imgc2160	The massive and half-empty Casino Géant
imgc2163	Back at Carcassonne's tiny airport
imgc2164	Fred and Harry play with Lego
imgc2165	A luggage tug sits around doing not much
imgc2167	The boys play around
imgc2168	Waiting for our plane to land
imgc2169	Our plane arrives - one of about two flights a day
imgc2173	Our plane rocks up
imgc2175	The boys on an extended zebra crossing
imgc2177	Totally hi-tech sign pointing us the right way
imgc2178	The traditional boarding scrum of Ruinair
imgc2182	The plane looks out to the hills
imgc2184	Harry is bored