Carcassonne town

We're off to Barcelona

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June 8th 2015
Hi folks Today we left the beautiful country of France and drove across the border to Spain, before we did that we stopped at Carcassonne the oldest original fortress in Europe it was built up by the Romans in 100 BC it was amazing... I'm going to have to get a dictionary to find more words than wow, amazing and fantastic it was once a village and now is a market place, very cool. Before leavin ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more