Catching up with Caunes Minervois

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This morning found us at loose ends ... it had rained heavily overnight and today was overcast and a bit drizzly early on in the day.

We went in search of the larger surpermarket for a quick pickup and then just followed one of the roads leading out of town ...

We travelled through many tiny villages and soon we were approaching Minerve (I call this place the French Grand Canyon) ... there's my fear of heights kicking in again.

As the mountains were shrouded in mist we opted to not visit this site today and continued on ... eventually ending up in Caunes Minervois for a memory walk ... in 2005 we spent a wonderful week here in a rented house that is built into the "Remparts" with our friends, Shari and Doug.

Caunes Minervois is a medieval village set at the foot of the Montagne Noir in the Aude Dept. of the Languedouc Region.

The village has many steep and narrow streets that twist and turn.

The 8th Century Abbey ... currently under restoration.

                              

Red / pink marble is quarried here and is said to have been since Roman times ...

Somethings were very familiar and then others we couldn't remember at all...

The lavoir, Maison des Remparts, giant plane trees ...