Beziers

We're car-less at the moment.  Bikes are good for less than 5km (Andy's limit) so any further than that we're using the public transport system.  On Wednesday (no school on Wednesday's here) we took a bus trip to Beziers, the nearest big town.  It was an interesting place, very old and in many parts beautiful, but somehow there was a sense of struggle about the place.  We walked up to a beautiful look-out place (one of many beautiful look-out places), with old old four storey buildings on the street.  From the top floor I am sure you could see for 100km or more, and yet those buildings and the ones in streets around seemed like slums, boarded up windows, vacant-staring people sat in doorways, etc.
Yet, in contrast, around the cathedral, less than 5 minutes walk away, the city is quite posh (see photo - not that you can see much). The kids were amazed to see the prices in the shoe shops - shoes for babies too small to walk with an 80 euro price tag.
An interesting place, anyway, I'm sure we'll be back lots.  Here are a couple of pics: