My abiding memory of Beziers was the number and variety of sex workers standing at intersections on the ring road! You just don’t get that as you bypass Swindon.
There are lovely towns in the hills to the north and west, lots of connections (usually negative) with Simon de Montfort (pere et fils) and the obliteration of the Cathars.
“Our men spared no one, irrespective of rank, sex or age, and put to the sword almost 20,000 people. After this great slaughter the whole city was despoiled and burnt, as divine vengeance miraculously raged against it.” Arnaud Amalric, papal legate, to Innocent III.
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Laban 04.27.25 at 1:11 pm
My abiding memory of Beziers was the number and variety of sex workers standing at intersections on the ring road! You just don’t get that as you bypass Swindon.
There are lovely towns in the hills to the north and west, lots of connections (usually negative) with Simon de Montfort (pere et fils) and the obliteration of the Cathars.
Alan White 04.27.25 at 10:34 pm
Claustrophobic! And very odd how that old bayed window looks out directly on–a very close window!
Mark Rosher 04.28.25 at 9:55 am
And, in the uk at least, that’s why the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 came about, lol.
Peter Hovde 05.03.25 at 8:20 pm
“Our men spared no one, irrespective of rank, sex or age, and put to the sword almost 20,000 people. After this great slaughter the whole city was despoiled and burnt, as divine vengeance miraculously raged against it.” Arnaud Amalric, papal legate, to Innocent III.
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