Saturday, June 3 – Canal du Midi: Caux-et-Sauzens to Carcassonne
Our wonderful hostess, Sandrine, concerned we wouldn’t find any food on the way to Carcassonne, prepared a fabulous picnic lunch for us: sandwiches of comté, tomato, zucchini, and cucumber drizzled with local olive oil, along with hard-boiled eggs for snacking if we feel peckish. Made up for the head bumps Dave suffered!
Ended up snacking on this at our Carcassonne apartment.
So, it turns out that Carcassonne, in addition to being a World Heritage medieval city, is also the center of a nascent wine region. We tried to get into the Château Caux – no luck, it was shut down. We tried to find Château Pennautier – no luck, our internet and cell service were both dead so we didn’t dare leave the canal to wander around to find it in the hot sun. No problem, after lunch (another salad below) we found Dominique, purveyor of fine, natural wines. We’re dining in tonight and doing a zoom to catch up with one of our kids so bon nuit!
The salad at Café de la Comédie on the way into Carcassonne.
Dominique was recommending wines according to our auras – we’ll see how well she did :).
Our Carcassonne apartment: excellent location, full kitchen, bedroom, loft, balcony, and views. Not bad!
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