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Consider Carcassonne for a getaway break, Kate did ...


Kate Morfoot, leading travel writer and founder of www.LoveToEatToTravel.com reports on her visit to this French city.


Carcassonne is an incredible city, steeped in history, surrounded by beautiful countryside and acres of vineyards it is a unique place to visit for a city break. We checked into awell-run hotel located in the countryside at Saint Martin.


The owners Alain and Isabel manage the family friendly, Hotel La Bastide Saint Martin,which is perfect for a relaxing break in a quiet location and only a short drive to the medieval city. Our room had beautiful French windows overlooking the rose garden and beyond toward the nearby picturesque Chateau Saint Martin.


It was nicely decorated with egg shell blue walls, traditional French furniture andmarble and tiled floors. The bedroomwas large with a spotlessly clean private bathroom and shower with lots of luxury toiletries. Did you know that more and more people are now booking hotels so they can get ideas for their own interior design at home? According to www.Booking.com more than half of travellers return from holiday so enthused by it, that they are inspired to undertake interior design work to their own home! Holiday accommodation with great interior design creates a more memorable experience for the majority of global travellers. More and more travellers seem to want to stay in accommodation with different interior design to their own home, to experience different styles that they wouldn’t be brave enough to replicate in their own home.


I can believe this, having been impressed by many of the hotels and theirmanicured gardens over the years it’s hard not to bring back some ideas, but some can be far too outrageous to trial on our Victorian home! However, I tend to focus on bed linen and with this hotel’s luxury Egyptian cotton sheets; this was a win for me!


The hotel has a wonderful outdoor heated swimming pool, large enough to work off the excellent breakfast provided by the hotel. Fresh bread and buttered croissants, an assortment of cheese, ham and eggs, yoghurts and pancakes not to mention the freshly squeezed juices; it’s a feast to set you up until you take a late lunch in town! We were really pleased to find this hotel though which offered a warm family-run establishment.


The Cite de Carcassonne was classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997. It is made up of a collection of medieval buildings that are unique in Europe with regards to their size and their remarkable condition. The City is ringed by two belts of ramparts, an outer wall from the XIII century that stretches for 1650mand an interior wall that dates back to the IV century. The collection of buildings is made up of the Comtal Chateau which houses the gem merchants’ museum, the barbicans, a basilica, a drawbridge and 52 distinctive towers.


We were given a guided one hour tour with a costumed Knight of the XIII century. Meeting at the front of the Hotel Donjon in the medieval city, he enthusiastically showed us around describing the castle, details of the historicalmeasures taken by the castle guards and defendants to ensure their safety when under attack!


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