24th Dec - Nearly a white Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah!
Tam, Mark and the big fella!
For those of you who have been wondering, we have planned a fancy Christmas lunch is our nice little village home in Caunes, 20km from Carcassone in the South of France.
At one stage we thought it may be a white Christmas as we visited a loverly little village called Saint Cirq Lapopie which was covered in a sprinkling of snow.
The beautiful village of Saint Cirq and one of the magical surprises not planned in the trip! Intact Medieval village hidded away on the side of a mountain.
We then overnighted in Abli which was a little chilly and we were surprised to wake up to minus 4 degrees and light snow falling
Wintery morning in Albi (about 10am)
Luckily by the time we reached our final destinantion, in a 3 hour period it had reached 10 degrees! We're expecting anywhere between 7 and 10 degrees Christmas day so that won't be so bad (we heard it was 37 degrees in Melbourne the other day).
We haven't missed out too much on the Christmas atmosphere as most villages have a Christmas market, all villages and towns have christmas decoration and christmas lights are a big deal in France. We've included some photos to put you all in the European Christmas Spirit.
Nativity scene from St Cecile Cathedral Albi
Christmas market in Bordeaux
Christmas lights in Albi
Snowmen in Nantes
We'll include some photos from our Christmas day in the next few days.
Tam, Mark and the big fella!
For those of you who have been wondering, we have planned a fancy Christmas lunch is our nice little village home in Caunes, 20km from Carcassone in the South of France.
At one stage we thought it may be a white Christmas as we visited a loverly little village called Saint Cirq Lapopie which was covered in a sprinkling of snow.
The beautiful village of Saint Cirq and one of the magical surprises not planned in the trip! Intact Medieval village hidded away on the side of a mountain.
We then overnighted in Abli which was a little chilly and we were surprised to wake up to minus 4 degrees and light snow falling
Wintery morning in Albi (about 10am)
Luckily by the time we reached our final destinantion, in a 3 hour period it had reached 10 degrees! We're expecting anywhere between 7 and 10 degrees Christmas day so that won't be so bad (we heard it was 37 degrees in Melbourne the other day).
We haven't missed out too much on the Christmas atmosphere as most villages have a Christmas market, all villages and towns have christmas decoration and christmas lights are a big deal in France. We've included some photos to put you all in the European Christmas Spirit.
Nativity scene from St Cecile Cathedral Albi
Christmas market in Bordeaux
Christmas lights in Albi
Snowmen in Nantes
We'll include some photos from our Christmas day in the next few days.
posted by Most Liveable at 10:19 PM
2 Comments:
Saint Cirq village looks like a tiny model not a life size village! Very pretty.
K, D & E
P.S. xmas lunch looks great
The photos look fabulous! Thanks and keep it up!
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