We take Matt and Al over to France to show them what naughty children we have been. They are suitably unimpressed by the ruin we have bought. We try to distract them with a visit to Larresingle. This is a fortified medieval village on a tiny scale. Known (ambitiously) as The Carcassone of The Gers. It is cute, but only takes about 10 minutes to walk round.
It all seems fairly closed up on a cold day in March, but in the summer there is a creperie and some little shops. The village also lies on the well trodden pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostella. Which I have just discovered also runs past our farmhouse. I hope we get some interesting pilgrims trailing by!
Larresingle also has a small (everything here is small), outdoor exhibition of medieval warfare. It looks like something that small children and engineers might like. It's not open today, so back to our newly acquired french farmhouse to torment our boys.
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