How very excellent of the sun to shine for us today, our last day at the coast. I refused to get out of bed until the sky in the window above my head had turned blue. Blue it turned and stayed that way all day even if there were some white clouds in it later on. Kisbee was out and raring to go so off we went to Agde. Not much to see at Agde. The L’Herault river runs through it most attractively but apart from that…. The cathedral is ancient, fortified and back to 900s and built out of blocks of basalt, volcanic rock. Tall, dark and forbidding and nothing like any cathedral I’ve seen before. The chapel to the side has some nice stained glass windows. Had to buy my candle off a lady
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