Wednesday was cold wet and windy but I completed my round of the D-day beaches and also found time to visit Pegasus Bridge which for me put the top hat on the whole visit. The next best thing was when a falcon went into hover mode only 20 feet away from me, it split its time watching me and searching the ground but it was there for at least a minute, magic.
Thursday saw me heading down south, I enjoyed the non-motorway route and the unexpected lunchtime picnic with the temperature at 16 degrees was a real bonus for November. Thursday night was spent at Limoges Ibis hotel close to the train station - interesting offers are available from some local girls but the highlight for me was a meal at a Vietnamese restaurant strangely enough called the Saigon. The food was lovely but the staff ( a waitress the same age as me ) and the ambiance hailed back to the sixties.
I am now staying in a quaint gite in Carcassonne for four days and the huge bonus is it is self catering so I am enjoying the local produce and saving money at the same time. Seriously although I do like French cuisine it it is both good and healthy to get back to basics, cheese, salad, olives etc plus lots of local vino.
Today I walked over to the medieval city, it is magnificent but just another castle and walled town. I had thought I might feel a little something after all my reading and research but no, nothing grabbed me. The more interestsing thing was it was market day I bought baguettes, vegetables and wine but mostly people watched. tonight is chill out night.
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