france this summer had a number of surprises in store and actually only pleasant ones. after a lot of fuss about where to go and for how long to stay we suffered a little bit from the fact that practically all places we wanted to use had some restrictions simply because we left it too late to book. so literally two days before we left london we still needed to fill in some accomodation gaps and one was a couple of days in carcassonne that our barn wasn't available any longer. what we found was the aptly named chateau floure just east of carcassonne in the smallest village - really only a few houses around the chateau, but nevertheless very pretty, and a grand place it was.
coming straight from a long day on horseback we arrived in a cloud of dust and horse smell only to be treated like kings. a beautiful pool and a lovely restaurant made me actually try to re-arrange all follow-on bookings only to stay here longer, but guess what...spaced out again....
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