A year ago, me and my amazing girlfriend went on holiday to a city in the south of France called Carcassonne. It started out as a joke, with me saying we should go there in order to play the board game Carcassonne there, but once we saw photos of the area, we discovered that it looked stunning: a large fortified medieval city.
The first port of call was the apartment we had rented, we chose it because it was quite cheap and near the city, and it was actually really nice, and offered a view of some of the towers of the city.
As it was the afternoon, we decided to just explore the city a little bit.
Next up was the important choice of food. We went to a restaurant called Auberge de Dame Carcas. One thing we quite liked was that most places had a “set menu” with a few choices, which made it clear how much you would be spending. Louise chose duck pate, half a piglet and a cheese board while I went with a platter salad, duck cassoulet and a trio of desserts.
Duck cassoulet is amazing: it’s a confit duck with pork sausage in a meaty haricot bean casserole. It’s a recipe that I had to find and make again once I got home.
After this, it had gotten dark, so we had another walk around before heading back to our apartment.
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