Donny B. wrote:All I'm fit for is the couch today. Great weekend!
No change since saturday so
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Donny B. wrote:All I'm fit for is the couch today. Great weekend!
If I only had the energy to come up with a witty retort......4PP wrote:Donny B. wrote:All I'm fit for is the couch today. Great weekend!
No change since saturday so
We were in there too. Mad shower of barstards. I think it is Trin-Duc's bar.JohnB wrote:What a great weekend! We dug ourselves out of a hole big time at the end. Joe's substitutions did the trick. I thought Blind Dave let them away with murder at the break down. The Montpellier fans were good fun apart from the 2 middle aged crazies who had a go at me for some reason at the conclusion of the game. Between the flecks of spittle the only words I recognised were Voleur and Batards! To be fair they may have been directed more at Blind Dave than at us. Mrs John B and I met a few of the Montpellier players in the H Bar after the match. They weren't holding back on the pints front which might go a long way to explaining why they appeared to tun out of puff in the last 20 mons on Saturday last!
We tried to get into Trinc-duc's place on Saturday night at around half two, seemed to be shut, unless we'd managed to ramble to a completely random placejohng wrote:We were in there too. Mad shower of barstards. I think it is Trin-Duc's bar.JohnB wrote:What a great weekend! We dug ourselves out of a hole big time at the end. Joe's substitutions did the trick. I thought Blind Dave let them away with murder at the break down. The Montpellier fans were good fun apart from the 2 middle aged crazies who had a go at me for some reason at the conclusion of the game. Between the flecks of spittle the only words I recognised were Voleur and Batards! To be fair they may have been directed more at Blind Dave than at us. Mrs John B and I met a few of the Montpellier players in the H Bar after the match. They weren't holding back on the pints front which might go a long way to explaining why they appeared to tun out of puff in the last 20 mons on Saturday last!
We just stumbled (literally) upon it. ended up in the main square about 3:30 talking to Nagusa (who had 2 lethal cocktails in his hand) Lost the power of speech etc. The only way we knew what time it was was because of the timestamp on the camera. Managed to make it to the Toulouse game on the Sunday and spent Monday in the medieval town of Carcassonne.
Best away weekend ever.
My favourite, by a country mile, town in all of Europe - what did you think? Did you have time to see both cities or did you just visit the older one?johng wrote:spent Monday in the medieval town of Carcassonne.
Beautiful. Just spent about 3 hours in the old one. Had a good nose about the main castle bit and a wander around the adjacent parts. Would consider staying in one of the hotels there with the family if it was not too dear.Xanthippe wrote:My favourite, by a country mile, town in all of Europe - what did you think? Did you have time to see both cities or did you just visit the older one?johng wrote:spent Monday in the medieval town of Carcassonne.
I think Carcassonne may be unique in that it not only has the medieval walled town but the 'new' town is also completely walled.johng wrote:Beautiful. Just spent about 3 hours in the old one. Had a good nose about the main castle bit and a wander around the adjacent parts. Would consider staying in one of the hotels there with the family if it was not too dear.Xanthippe wrote:My favourite, by a country mile, town in all of Europe - what did you think? Did you have time to see both cities or did you just visit the older one?johng wrote:spent Monday in the medieval town of Carcassonne.
Had a wander around the actual town of Carcassonne too. Lovely also.
Felicitations, JohnB et votre gentille femme, et merci de prenner mon tire-bouche a bord l'avion de Lyon dans votre baggages. After a great weekend and a delightful morning in Lyon sitting by the Cote du Rhone in the sunshine with a few bottles of same my thinking was not the clearest and I checked in my bag without first placing my corkscrew in it. You kindly placed it in your checked in baggage and returned it on arrival in DUB. Many thanks. Your good turn will stand to you and be repaid some time, some place. Say hi to M and enjoy the hat.JohnB wrote:What a great weekend! We dug ourselves out of a hole big time at the end. Joe's substitutions did the trick. I thought Blind Dave let them away with murder at the break down. The Montpellier fans were good fun apart from the 2 middle aged crazies who had a go at me for some reason at the conclusion of the game. Between the flecks of spittle the only words I recognised were Voleur and Batards! To be fair they may have been directed more at Blind Dave than at us. Mrs John B and I met a few of the Montpellier players in the H Bar after the match. They weren't holding back on the pints front which might go a long way to explaining why they appeared to tun out of puff in the last 20 mons on Saturday last!
Original site is 2500 years old. Main bulk of the castle and medieval city built in the 1100s. It fell into disuse and was REFURBISHED in the 1830s or so. Google will give you the details.Rubadubdub wrote:First visited Carcassonne at Easter (April) time and were the only ones in the castle. Loved the place. Then we visited in July time and couldn't move. The whole of the castle was like Grafton St on XMAS Eve and the rest of the town was jammed with traffic. It was very hot and people were short tempered.Xanthippe wrote:I think Carcassonne may be unique in that it not only has the medieval walled town but the 'new' town is also completely walled.johng wrote:spent Monday in the medieval town of Carcassonne.
Tréz important to pick your time.
Apparently the castle dates only from 18th century - anyone heard this ?