365 Project – Day 129

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

365 Project – Day 128

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…

365 Project – Day 127

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…

365 Project – Day 126

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…

365 Project – Day 125

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…