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Remember, restaurants serve only during lunch (11:30-14:00) and dinner
(19:00-21:00, later in bigger cities); some cafés serve food throughout the day.
Albi, an enjoyable river city of sienna-tone bricks, half-timbered buildings, and a marve-
lous traffic-free center, is worth a stop for two world-class sights: its towering cathedral
and the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum. Lost in the Dordogne-to-Carcassonne shuffle and
overshadowed by its big brother Toulouse, unpretentious Albi rewards the stray tourist
well. Formost, Albi worksbest asadaystop,thoughsome will besmitten byits red-brick
charm and lured into spending a night.
