Carcassonne, Colin... More super, memory- invoking pictures..
except for that final one... Obviously accidental ? I think your camera must have been jolted..? Who would deliberately take a photo of a Pharmacy...?
At bedtime, last night, the forecast was for the usual unbroken sunshine.
Being the Undermanager's birthday, we'd planned to spend it on the beach.
Breakfast on the terrace, to a cloudy 18'.
It was so cold, I had to put a tee shirt on and buckle up my sandals. A breeze blew up, bringing misty rain..
We've had to come indoors and close all the Veluxes..
It never rains here in June, I'm told.
very, very, nice at the moment.........just right.......be nice if it stays this way all day................sun, breeze, dry...and above all waaarrm.....oh...delightful
Lovely here, plenty of sunshine and a gentle breeze to dry clothes on the line
It's good news as I have to get my vitamin D boosted, I'm a bit on the low side apparently.
We have at least one pair of goldfinches nesting right outside the patio door in an evergreen climber, I gather they often nest in loose groups, so there may be more than one pair in there, it's hard to tell.
They get a bit nonplussed when we go in and out of the patio doors, but other than that they seem to be doing fine, used to us now and carry on feeding the young.
Today we awoke to a blue sky and 24°C in the shade by 0900.
So we left Carcassonne and went westwards to the summit of the Canal du Midi at Seuil du Naurouze. Here is to be found the obelisk erected to mark the achievement of Pierre Paul Riquet, the entrepreneur who conceived and oversaw the construction of this, the canal that linked the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean:
By now the temperature was well into the 30's so we decided to drive around and past Toulouse before stopping for the night. We stumbled upon the newly built free aire at Grenade, a small town with a bastide (road system set out in chequer-board style). After dinner we wandered around the town and unexpectedly found the largest covered medieval market in France.
It has 36 large octagonal brick pillars (we'd noticed that most of the buildings since just before Toulouse were of brick rather than stone) laid out in a grid 41metres X 41metres and an enormous roof:
which includes a former administrative building:
.........with no visible means of entry!
It's a clear, still, hot night and sleeping is likely to be intermittent and sticky.
Overcast here on the south coast moving on today going for the bright lights of Brighton and stopping on the C&MC site so tomorrow we can spend all day in the Lanes and the arches.
Just like yesterday.
Cool, cloudy start. No rain forecast.
Was poised to dip my first soldier into my egg... When it started to drizzle and we dashed indoors.
After 1½ hours of light drizzle, the run off was still not clean enough to go into the drinking cistern.
But I've got an extra 100 litres of dusty, diluted " Shird bite " for plant watering and toilet flushing.
It doesn't take much to keep me happy.
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