Today I am excited to have received a copy of the Carcassonne Almanac from www.spielbox-online.de which I ordered way back in April for 8 EURO (the actual product link is here)  I preordered the product (which just recently became available mid August).  The product (which is essentially just a glorified newsletter) contains a copy of the expansion Carcassonne - Die Katharer (The Cathars).  That was, in fact, the primary reason I made the order in the first place.  Previously, the expansion was only made available to a select few subscribers to a game magazine in Europe.

Carcassonne is an awesome tile-based board game and I look forward to trying out this expansion!