Aigues-Mortes

We decided that we should discover a little more of France, so we jumped into the car and headed east… for 2 hours. There we found Aigues-Mortes. This is a place we have heard a great deal about set along side the salt flats and a short drive from the Mediterranean Sea. We had heard it was a pretty version of Carcassonne. We arrived in time for lunch, so enjoyed a meal of home-made fish soup (is it supposed to taste of sea water?) and a plate of beef, cooked until it turned to leather… okay, you see where I am going with this…

The city is walled by large turrets and ramparts. Once we paid to enter the ramparts (6 Euros each) we began our walk along the tops of the city. We could look down on buildings of the inner-city or look over the car-parks outside the city. It was amazing to be able to look into peoples homes, over high walls into courtyards and even, into the private terraces created by destroying the 300 year old buildings. Oh, and once we began out walk, the loo was 1 hour away.

Carcassonne forever!