We recently returned from our holiday in France. We had a wonderful time! We flew into the amazing medieval city of Carcassonne.
The castle and fortified town here are truly remarkable, one of the finest examples of military architecture in Europe.
Though I find castles inherently fascinating, we were inspired to visit Carcassonne because of our family’s favorite eponymous board game. If you haven’t played it yet, you should! We spent the day claiming roads and cities and cathedrals.
Molly got this road on the way into the castle.
But Sage got this one:
River and Molly both managed to get a claim on the castle.
There were even some farms within the city walls.
I’m not sure who won the game, but we had a great time playing!
You can see more of our pictures from Carcassone on flickr.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Hi everyone!
Guess who is happy to be the first to comment on your new and beautiful site! Thanks so much for the pictures! I’ve been waiting, patiently, I might add!! What an interesting place and what great pictures! Love to you all, Grana
July 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The kids and I enjoyed seeing these pics as we have recently got into this game ourselves (thanks to your recommendation a while back on the blog!…..did you see any dragons?
July 12th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Hee, hee.
great pictures
July 12th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Unfortunately, we didn’t see any dragons. Perhaps it was because we had a couple of fairies with us as protection? It was certainly easy to imagine fantastic beasts swooping down on the castle turrets.
We did see some nests where prehistoric cave bears spent the winter…