Visitors

Our visitors arrived Thursday so there's been a little less time to post.  We've also revisited many of the spots that we discovered in the first week.

On Friday, PopPop's birthday, we went on a 9 hour bus trip arranged by the tourist office to a few towns unreachable on the main public transit routes.  I've not read Cecilia's posts but I'm sure she has some lovely photos from Roquebrun, a town clinging to the side of a hill with the deteriorating remains of its 10th century chateau looming above.  In the next village, Olargues, we were actually able to climb through the remains of the chateau while looking down on the valley of the river Jaur which the pilgrims used to follow on their way to Compostela in Spain.

Church today (yes, in French, but it probably won't be too different from the Latin mass I had the kids attend at Easter) and then we'll purchase our tickets for Monday's trip to Carcasonne.  I imagine we'll have some great pictures and stories to tell from that trip.

On another note, I had a great morning walk the other day.  As I passed by, our baker called out "Bonjour, madame!" and our butcher did the same.  Then I ran into the man who the kids shamed into picking up his dog's mess and he, too, greeted me familiarly.  Yay!  I feel part of the local fabric; just what I wanted.