Laundry in Lagrasse

While the weather was somewhat marginal today (a solid 1.5 on the Knowmark Weather Scale), we got quite a lot of sunshine, which is the most important thing. Because the village is quite small, there is only one boulangerie, and today was its weekly closing day. So we drove to St. Laurent de la Cabrerisse (about 10 minutes away) for our daily bread and pastries. The bread turned out to be particularly good.

Since our gîte has a washing machine, we got caught up with some laundry. And, we visited a winery, because it's almost impossible not to! We went a few kilometres north of Lagrasse to Château de Vaugelas (near Camplong d'Aude) and tasted three of their wines. All were impressive, so we bought a couple of bottles: one to drink here; one to bring back.

And, dinner again at the Les trois grâces: we shared an assiette des trois sauveurs - toasts with three different (all delicious) spreads; Steve had confit de canard; Susan had admired the brochettes des supions the night before and had her heart set on that. We had a pichet of red wine which was very good - something from nearby Camplong. We will definitely be returning here for dinner tomorrow night!


Grape harvesting machine in action


Bridge over the l'Orbieu with the famous Abbaye in the background (Lagrasse)


Another view of the oldest bridge over the l'Orbieu in Lagrasse