Don't, whatever you do, go to the house of horrors museum by the well in the centre of Carcassonne.
I just came back from taking some Year 8 students on a school trip there and two of our 13 year-old girls got their boobs and bums groped by one of the employees there.
We reported it to the police and they arrested the guy, but the police said they have had problems there before. Seems they have a habit of employing scumbags.
Otherwise the area's gorgeous, the people (pervs aside) are fantastic, the food top drawer and the plonk not half bad, but the valleys can be very windy when the Tramontane (the wind that blows off the Pyrenees) is blowing.