carcassonne, france

Because of having to take the later train, we arrived in Carcassone around 8pm. We went looking for a cheap hotel, and a lady at what turned out to be an expensive hotel called over to a cheaper one for us and made us a reservation. The receptionist there spoke good English, I'm sure of it, but insisted on speaking French to us. He wasn't being rude about it or anything, he was a really nice guy, he just wanted us to try French because he knew we were from Canada and should know some! We got most of what he was saying, then dropped of our stuff and headed to "Le Cite", the old castle and walled town. We knew everything would probably be closed but we wanted to go see what we could and walk around it anyways! It was so huge and awesome.. too bad we couldn't have been there during the day though.