Another beautiful morning and we were soon heading south again on the A75; I must say that this is a fabulous road to drive on and it has some amazing scenery to go with it. Our first stop was at the viewing point for the Millau Viaduct. This Norman Foster designed bridge is quite simply…
Today I filled a long held ambition and visited the Millau Viaduct. This “highway in the sky” is 2.5 km long and was designed by Norman Foster. It’s just a bridge you may say but it’s more than that it is a helluva bridge; and it slopes! Loved it. 9 May 2014
After our complete pig out last night we were woken early by street sweeping and preparation of the war memorial in the park opposite for today’s big fête in France commemorating the first world war. So breakfast and away it was. Firstly through rolling green hills populated with hefty Charolais cattle and then the hills…
Something a little different today. We are at Marvejols in the Lozère department and today the whole of France is shut for a day’s holiday. But we found a nice church to look at and I particularly liked the fact that there is a boot scraper set into the wall by the main entrance. Clean…
We both enjoyed a magnificent night’s sleep and woke to . . . . . no rain. Hoorah! Stoked up on breakfast and away after a quick visit to the Basilica of Notre Dame over the road. It’s very big but, frankly, not to our taste. Soon we were on the motorway heading down to…
Today we’ve driven south via Paris to Moulins in the Allier. This ancient and prosperous town sits on the northern edge of the Auvergne. Being France everything is modernised but if you poke about in the old town there are many interesting buildings with fine features. I particularly liked this window and balcony. 7 May…
Well, the first day of our holiday nearly got off to a bad start. We left home as planned at 06h30 which gave us five hours for a three hour journey. This was to allow time for delays and breakfast. If I tell you that four and a half hours later we scrambled into the…
We’re in France and today has taken us across some of the World War 1battlefields; many names so familiar to anyone who knows a bit of history. We always try to visit some of the wartime cemeteries as they are now beautiful and peaceful places; immaculately cared for on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves…
Maude and I walked into town today for a run in the park. Everything is now coming into bloom and I was spoilt for choice for a photo. Wonderful blue ceonothus, tall horse chestnut trees with their white candles – if I’d found a red one I’d have taken that, brilliant yellow laburnums. But the…
In 1959 Bobby Darin had a hit record with Mack the Knife. I found the song intriguing, for a twelve year old, and it stayed with me. Later on I discovered that it was a song from Bertholdt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and I loved the music from that. Eventually I found…
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