Lazy days in Languedoc We were looking for somewhere a little different but still easy to get to. A little off the beaten track but not so isolated as to be inaccessible. France (but not Provence), Italy (but not Tuscany). The weather should be as guaranteed as it could be (difficult these days) and the atmosphere Mediterranean. A speculative wander around the Ryanair website showed value in mid week flights to Carcassonne - a city about which we’d heard quite a bit but had never visited. In fact we weren’t really sure exactly where it was. The South of France is quite a big place! We arrived in Carcassonne on a sunny but blustery day in September. The airport is definitely toytown but someone looks as if they have big plans as the diggers were out
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