Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a famous walled city, and every guidebook talked about how it would be crowded with hordes of tourists during the summer. The city itself wasn't too interesting because it was geared towards tourists and was therefore pretty tacky. Because we had gone to Albi and Cordes-sur-ciel earlier that day, we ended up arriving in Carcassonne in the evening, just as the shops were closing down.  It was perfect timing then, because the crowds were dwindling by the time we got there, and we had no interest in going into the overpriced souvenir shops anyway.

The double walls were cool, but then I found out that unlike Peyrepertuse, the walls were rebuilt in the 1800s into what they imagined the town to have looked like in the past. They were fake! We spent the majority of our time after dinner strolling around the walls, trying to figure out which parts of the walls were original and which had been rebuilt.