Because it was Cloudy and CL.* and Cuz (we share a family name so probably some where back in medieval times had a common ancestor) had a hire Car we decided to visit the La Cité de Carcassonne and I was delighted to see that the Carousel was still there, because of the juxtaposition of the old and new. La Cité has been used in tons of movies including Robin Hood and Lion in Winter. Although it is my umpty umpth visit over the last three decades, I still love sharing it.
A new Carving of Dame Carcas is outside the gates. The story goes the town was beseiged by Charlemagne and when the citizens were near starvation, the ruling lady, Dame Carcas stuffed a pig with all the remaining grain and threw it off the ramparts. Charlemagne seeing the over fed pig gave up and broke camp. In victory, Dame Carcas blew her horn, and Charlemagne who was a bit deaf asked what the noise was. "Carcas te sonne," "Carcas is calling you," an aide said.
And lunch had to be cassoulet, the regional dish of beans and meat eaten in an open courtyard as a young musician played both his own songs and those well known.
But most important of all, we HAD TO STOP at the Cookie shop where we picked (not plucked) among a wide selection of the most luscious biscuits as the English say imaginable.
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