Aaaaand then the world according to Joy fell apart, and I am now finishing this post a month later! (Psst!!! I have some compromised sinuses, and a tendency to experience migraines that I want to give away. Any takers?? I'll even throw in a free supply of antihistamines, and Tylenol! So... No takers, huh? Darn it anyway. Well, I tried. ;p)
Back to the Bastides. A Bastide village is a fortified village, set up by a group of people that wanted protection, and didn't have a local castle to cozy up to. So, they apparently did it themselves. And it is beautiful. We walked around for a little while, and enjoyed the spectacular view. We will be going back to visit this charming village again very soon...
A l0ok up the walls from the road.
(Peering over the walls, dreaming...)
A look at the reinforcement on the corner of the wall.
Carson in the arrow slit of the walls. (It was amazing to mehow tiny those holes actually are. I forget how much larger people
are these days than they were several hundred years ago.)
My children, climbing the walls, as they are wont to do!!
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