Spain and France vacation (in August)

 

Tossa De Mar, Catalonia, Spain

Sam is touring the remains of the Roman villa in Tossa De Mar, one of the beach towns in Catalonia. He especially loved touching the bricks and trying to find anything left over by the Romans in the wells

 

Climbing the 13th century fortress (with a medieval base) 

 

 View from the top of the fortress

 

On Tossa De Mar beach

 

On the beach, in front of the fortress Sam climbed earlier that day 

 

 Water polo, back at the hotel.

 

Colliore, Catalonia, France

Sitting on cannon balls in the Colliore Castle

 

 View from the top of Colliore Castle. It inspired many post-impressionists

 

Carcassonne, Cathar Country, France

 Carcassonne is a medieval castle, one of the best-preserved in southern France.

 

Carcassone Cathedral 

 

 Wondering the castle ramparts at Carcassonne

 

 Outside of the Carcassone Castle

 

 Queribus Castle, Cathar Country, France

Right before climbing the mountain to the top of the Queribus castle, which is located in the Eastern Pyrenees mountain range in southern France. The castle was built in the 11th century by a religious community called the Cathars

 

Gradpa took this photo of Sam and his parents from the castle tower 

 

 The Eastern Pyrenees  seen from the Queribus Castle tower

 

 At the top of the Pyrenees!

 

 

The Mountains and Waterfall in St Migel Del Fai, Catalonia, Spain.

 

 It was fun to get behind and under the waterfall

Descending into the caves with grandpa

Even Sam seemed like a giant in some of those cave passages