Bastide villages: Castelnou de Montmiral, Puycelci and Bruniquel

Some more shots of high up, stony, impossibly romantic places. There is a ready supply of medieval villages here, many of them built on top of rugged hard-to-get-to hills. See more pictures on the web album accompanying this blog.

Also these three sites are among the 140 or so "Most beautiful villages in France" Or read about them en francais (better pics)

A resto-bar where we had coffee. (The first pic) The server was happy enough to serve us seeing as we were the only tourists in town.


Sartre was here. De Beauvoir too, natch. She writes about it. Briefly.



Looks a nice spot. Chairs out but nobody home.

Stony, mossy steps.


Approaching Puycelci .


Jake running up the hill forwards.


Bruniquel. A couple of lads peeking over the wall. Kilroy was here.