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Dinner time!
The stunning Pyrenees
Fete Night!
Cheeky Monkeys!
Home!
My new love!
Carcassone
Sunset over our house in Laroque
Les Bordes
St. Girons market
Grotte de Niaux
Pont du Gard
Mirepoix
In the village
In the village
Peyrepertuse
Nimes
Les Bordes
Mirepoix
‘In the midst of life we are in death’
The Cathar castle at Usson, seen on the way home
Did I mention the roads there and back were rather narrow?
A final lakeside view before we finished our walk
...and so much dead wood!
Another lake, another landscape
...and little waterfalls
All the lakes in the area are fed by networks of streams
We were reminded of the Lake District
We had only been walking some 20 minutes before finding our first lake
Life in the country
The Mayor on his tractor
Penelope stays aloof from it all..
Time for a dust bath
Now they've BOTH stolen a bucket
...or make off with them for a game of football
...and then they pick up your buckets...
...they're waiting to welcome you -
Back where we started from...
After all that climbing....
And there's Montségur....
The cows could hear the lecture too....
Still climbing- beyond the trees now
Through the forest, we'd sometimes come across fallen trees, wrenched out by some winter storm
At lunchtime, the views were cloudy, brooding
A wonderfully perfect Amanite
The first Autumn crocus of the season...
Fabrice sets the scene for us all...
Montségur
The Big Shot from the Education department tries to win the argument
I missed the moment of the great show of hands. The fight goes on
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