Mini Grand Canyon to The Border

Arrived at Minerve after a hairy drive round hair pin bends - Bit dodgy for M who doesn't like heights!

what an awesome place though and carpark to stay for 3euros a night with well clean loos :)  Minerve is a medieval city, really old and full of windy cobbled streets and in a huge gorge so had a dry moat around it - we went exploring in the tunnels in the moat - like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark with maybe a dinasaur about to appear round the corner!!  Here's the pics:

Dinasaur land!

We loved Minerve but there was a walk to a gorge we never got round to doing - maybe another time if we're passing on our tour....

We tried to head for Carcassonne but Sat Nav took us through vineyards and well dodgy lanes again - or maybe it was Mogs navigating error!!  Gave up on Carcassonne and headed further south - lots of recalculations and leaving roads at wrong points and D just stopped at the first campsite he saw!  Luckily it was a really good one!  Lovely walk to the beach and a fab cycle path that went for miles along the estuary/river.

We had arrived at Barcares and it was so nice we stayed a couple of days - running, cycling and chilling.

 Bike rides along the canal path were great and ended up at the quiet beach

 We loved this bench!  Saw fish jumping too...



Decided to treat ourselves to a meal out in the local town - Dave wanted to avoid snails and French things so went for the safe steak option - it arrived - he thought Raw was a region of France and not raw from the fridge!!!!  Funny!!!  He did eat about 3/4 of it!!  Nothing worse than raw meat burps in Vannie all night...... :)

Will add a pic of the raw meat but having trouble uploading pics where we are - we have other pics of this area to add too....

Time to move on the next day and head for the Spainish border - where we will cross the border will depend on Mogs navigation!!