Trip to Aude/
Midi-Pyrénées: Day 10
After a cassoulet lunch at St-Félix-Lauragais, we headed out
to the next step on the itinerary, Carcassonne .
On the way, we ran into the beau village of Montolieu
It wasn’t planned; it just happened to be there.
Montolieu prides itself on being a ‘book village’. Nope, that doesn’t mean it
is run by bureaucrats who go strictly by the book (although, knowing the
French, it probably is). What it means is that this little old village has over
five bookshops. A number of writers and artists have made this village their
home, which explains this plethora. Other than the bookshops, which look like
…well… bookshops, this village has a number of cottages done up in interesting
ways by their artist inhabitants. I took picture of some of the more
interesting cottages, and a couple of other interesting structures:
