Saturday 30/03/24
We woke up in the hotel in Murat after a very comfortable sleep to find it was snowing!
We had a lovely, typically French hotel breakfast of croissants, cheese and coffee, before setting off on our final leg before our sit. Although the snowfall was light and not really settling in the village, the scene we drove through was absolutely beautiful.
We had made a last-minute decision to change our route and rather take a slightly longer but quicker route using some of the toll roads, as we were under a bit of time pressure. It really paid off as I hadn't realised this took us over the Millau Viaduct. In April 2019, some of you may or may not remember, we went to try and catch a glimpse of the viaduct in Bokkie and we got thwarted by mist so thick we could hardly see the road, never mind the impressive bridge. Anyway, we finally got our chance not only to see, but also to cross one of the tallest cable-stayed bridges in the world.
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Approaching the viaduct
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| The scale of it becomes evident when up close - it is HUGE! |
An unintended consequence of our last-minute change of route was that we were following Dassie's sat-nav without having checked the route first so we were treated to a short-cut right through the middle of Montpellier, instead of skirting around on the bypass. oh well, one has to take the good with the bad.
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| Walking around Rochefort |
We are now staying Rochefort-du-Gard, where we have a house-sit. It all seems so familiar, it could be any wine-growing village in the Boland. While the weather is definitely warmer than Brittany (and definitely much warmer than the Auvergne), it has been very windy and rainy today with a large amount of dust being deposited with the rain, presumably from the Sahara.
We are looking after an adorable dog, Orca and a very pretty but stand-offish cat called Frodo - a lovely way to spend the Easter long-weekend.
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| Toni still insists she's not a dog-person... |
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