Just got back from a few days visiting the Pays Cathares which is kind of from Carcassonne down to the Pyrannees. This will qualify for this web site because it is a Catalan region. The road signs in many of the towns were in both French and Catalan.

This is a wine making region and just about which ever way you look there are vineyards. I don’t like wine myself so there was no wine tasting being done on the trip, but there were lots of Domaine de ….. wine tasting places where you can taste the stuff and buy it if you want to.

I am reading a book at the moment about the area called Labyrinth by Kate Mosse and it is one of those books that once you have started you can’t put down. In the book it is centred in Languedoc and in particular around Carcassone, Foix and the castles of the area like Chateau Montsegur. I can tell you it certainly looks impressive at the top of the mountain. Quite a climb to get to it.

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I have a very short interview with a couple that were at the Girona human castles event. I didn’t have time to edit it before I went away for the few days in France. I have one more interview recorded but neither I not the interviewee is happy with it so we are going to re record it in the next few days.

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