France. The journey continued.

We left home on Tuesday morning and now, on Saturday morning, we were leaving Souillac and heading for our destination in The Languedoc. It didn't seem long before we were on the ring road taking us around Toulouse, home of the European Space Agency, the aeronautical capital of Europe and the home of Concorde which made it's maiden flight here fifty years ago. As we headed southwest on the periphique we could see a very distinctively shaped mountain in the direction we were travelling. It was unmistakeable the Pech de Bugarach, the mountain at the head of the valley where we were going to be staying for the next four weeks. It felt like we were arriving at last. The road signs indicated the route to Carcassonne and soon we were leaving the Autoroute and heading across country to Limoux. This was home territory, The Aude. There is always a stop for our first big shop at the Leclerc super arches in Limoux, though on this occasion we already had a car full of our possessions, so we had to exercise a little control. The road from Limoux heads up the upper Aude valley until we reached Couiza, where we turned up from the bottom of the river valley and struck out over the Corbieres mountains to our final destination in the hills high above the small village of Cubiere sur Cinoble.

Gite Canigou, our destination and it was to be our home for the next month.

The views from Gite Canigou were quite simply, spectacular and to arrive on such a clear and beautiful day was breathtaking.