We moved on from Provence to Montagnac in the Hérault today. Here, we are meeting up with friends Mike & Linda and hoping to celebrate a double birthday in Francine’s favourite birthday lunch spot, Marseillan harbour. It’s a double birthday…
Category: 2011 Autumn
Provence Summary
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, photography, Provence, travel, wildlife
Étang des Aulnes
For our last day in Les Alpilles we thought we’d call into another noted wildlife habitat and Odonata spotting spot in these parts called the Étang des Aulnes. It’s a Sunday and, being a fishermans’ hang out, I was rather…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: Camargue, dragonflies, Etang des Aulnes, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
Pay the Ferryman
One really shouldn’t visit this area without getting a feel for the Camargue itself and to see some of the things for which it is noted. The Camargue is a large wetland formed by the complex and widespread delta of…
Peau de Meau
There are many so-called flat areas in the world. In the UK, the county of Norfolk is generally, somewhat disparagingly referred to as being flat: “Oh, Norfolk, yes, it’s terribly flat”. From an alcohol-dulled memory, I seem to recall that…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, photography, travel, wildlife
Roman Relics
The Romans knew a thing or two about living in a decent climate. All teh more surprising, therefore, that they eventually chose to cross the Channel and invade the British Isles. There were benefits, however; it is because the Romans…
Aux Alpilles
This morning we hitched up early and headed for our next port of call, Les Alpilles. Les Alpilles, themselves a parc naturel régional, are an attractive series of rocky hills in the middle of an otherwise flat plain just north-east…
Le Viaduc de Millau
A burst of early morning sun convinced us – it didn’t have to try very hard – to stay in Millau for one more day and see if we could get at least a reasonable picture of its attractive viaduct…
Barn Doors
It’s been a funny ol’ day. I need to back up a little, though. Yesterday we trotted off to McD’s for a dose of McWiFi to post some blog entries, all of which were lurking in Windows Live Writer on…
Up La Dourbie
The sun was out but there was what would most generously be described as “a stiff breeze” blowing down our little valley. At times, it felt like a gale. Nonetheless, we’d lugged our bicycles with us about 700 miles down…
Little and Large
Another long hop (for us heading south) of 300 miles-ish from La Brenne to Millau, home of the magnificent Norman Foster designed viaduct. Apparently, Norman Foster also designed that so-called Gherkin building in London but everyone has their off days.…
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