Excellent day today with a drive through Languedoc-Roussillon and a visit to Minerve.
September 17th 2017 Left the coast behind today. Not too impressed by the roads round Agde. Speed bump after bump which is not too pleasant in a Tandy.
We headed back to Beziers, ring-roaded it and then due west direction of Carcassonne.
A really scenic drive and the weather was fine and quite sunny most of the way. I suggested I’d like to visit Minerve, a fortified medieval village we had walked to when we sta
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