We had another bad night with thunder and lightning, Ben was once again running around the tent like a mad thing. We didn’t get a lot of sleep. We are driving on to Carcassonne today (or thats the plan) so we pack the tent, the first time it has been packed away damp but it’ll survive. The weather had improved considerably by the time we were getting ready to go. We dropped the tent down , Susan said “whats happened to the tent, it’s moving” we realised that Dan had sneaked into the tent before we let the pegs out, we had to lift it up and get him out.
We headed of up the hill again to walk the dogs along the same path as yesterday, we walked a bit of the way then walked back again. It was sunny and hot.
The road to France took us through Soldeau, this is another lovely town, maybe come back here another time. We elected to take the tunnel to the border with France, I regretted it as soon as we had paid the toll, we’ll miss the scenery. As we drove down into the tunnel we saw what we thought was smoke, this was slightly disconcerting but as we came to the end we realised that it was actually fog and the other side of the mountain was covered in thick fog and rain. Visibility was less than 20metres and some people didn’t even have any lights on. We found a petrol station as petrol is cheap here at 118c per litre (in France it is 167). We drove through customs hoping that they would not pull us out for a check, repacking the car in the rain would not be fun. They seemed surprised that we said we had not bought any booze or fags but we explained that we had no room for either.
We followed the country roads towards Carcassonne. About half way we found a ski resort that was open (not for skiing, walking) and we had a sandwich. We found ourselves in Limoux, about 15k fro Carcassonne, it looked like a nice town and the tourist info centre was just on the road. We had decided to treat ourselves to a night in a hotel so we wandered in and asked if they could find us a room. A nice girl spoke very good English, she explained that her boyfriend came from Fleetwood, she even had a North West accent. She found us a room in a dog friendly hotel an here we are.
Limoux is a market town and sub-prefecture in the French département of Aude, a part of the ancient Languedoc province and the present-day Languedoc-Roussillon région. It lies on the river Aude about 15 km due south of Carcassonne.
After getting freshened up we took a stroll into town and had a drink in a cafe. The prices here are so high,it cost us 7 euros for 2 drinks, in Cortes it is 2 euros.
This area is famous for Wine but I didn’t expect to see a Distillery.
We wandered down to the river and then walked across the old bridge, wandered around the other side of the river, past the hospital then back across the new bridge.
We walked back towards the hotel, on the way I saw this sign and thought it was quite good, it says if you take my space you can have my disability too.
After an hour in the room we headed out for dinner. We went back to the main square and sat outside a restaurant with the dogs. It was very pleasant.
Tomorrow we go to Carcassonne and then onto Milau to see the famous bridge. We’ve changed our route slightly and are now spending 1 night in Milau, 2 in St Etien then 2 in Chamonoix.
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