Advantages: ~~a unique visit Disadvantages: ~~ the crowd
Carcassonne, classed as World Heritage, and national monument since 1997, is known world wide for it's Cathare "cité".
It's not easy to describe, but I'll do my best :
Imagine a small town, built in the IVth century. This town has it's cathedral, (built later, by the Cathares), and a castle.... the lot is surrounded by a doubled fortified wall. That's for the quick description, but let me tell you how it came to be, and how my visit went.
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~~ I'll start with my visit ~~
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Carcassonne is an hour ...
bodsquidge 10.06.2006
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Advantages: A great story, very well told Disadvantages: It ended!
This is the tale of Jim, who is a whippet. And his two companions (the humans who mistakenly believe that they own him) Terry and Monica Darlington. And their "brave" decision, on retiring, to take a canal narrowboat the Phyllis May, all the way from Staffordshire to Carcassonne in Southern France.
Everyone told them that they were mad, or brave, or stupid or brave in a madly, stupid way. The upshot of this advice was that they were more intent on making the trip.
Jim has bad habits. The kind of bad habits that endear dogs to people who are not their owners. His habit of begging in pubs is told by Terry in a fashion that is both highly amusing and original in tone.
Terry's sense of humour that shines through the telling of this tale has brought a unique voice to the fore of British writing and it is to be hoped that Terry will ...
Advantages: Makes you want to do the trip yourself Disadvantages: Puts you off ever doing the trip yourself
My choice this month is a work of non fiction and it represents a complete change of tone; it is an hilarious account of a completely hairbrained attempt by a couple of pensioners to navigate a narrow boat from Stoke in Staffordshire through the canals of France to the Carcassonne region. It would have probably have been safer and less eventful if either the author or his wife had any idea of what they were doing, but it is all too apparent that they had not. Fortunately their whippet Jim, who can be viewed in a disgusting pose on Terry's web site, seems to have some sense of self preservation and, despite his penchant for rogering large lady Labradors, inveigles his way into the sympathies of characters crucial to their survival, who would otherwise have been justified in having Terry and his wife sectioned or whatever the equivalent ...
