Carcassonne

I put this opinion in the Carcassone category because this city is pretty much next door. I discovered this place through swimming championships and it is one of my favourite stop off. The sport complex is brilliant. The good thing about the swimming pool is that the borders are flat. I mean they have no walls. So when you compete the water won ‘ t come to your face because it doesn’t ’ t hit the walls. And it doesn’t knock you back so no slowing down. I realised my best times in this pool. Let’s get back to the subject. I decided to write an opinion on this place because it really deserves it. Most of the time you will ...  Read the complete review

The old town of Carcasonne is one of the few places where you can experience what it would have been like to have been a courageous knight defending the ramparts of your fortified town against your plunderous neighbours. Carcasonne, for those without a map handy, is in the wine-producing Aude region of Southwest France, in the shadow of the Pyrenees. It is about 60 miles SE of Toulouse, and easily accessible by train via Toulouse or Narbonne. It is divided, by the Aude river and four hundred years of history between the modern town (a Napoleonic fortress laid out on a grid system) and the Old Town on the heights above. This site, ringed by two walls and ...  Read the complete review