Mas des Figues
Travel Blogs from Saint Christol Les Ales
Blog 6
... I mean you are going down hill and you struggling to move. what a joke.
Throughout the ride i considered ditching it and getting a train in to Toulouse. I felt so lousy, my toes and fingers were freezing and the wind just kept on coming. I didn't get the train but it was mentally difficult to push through. Still thats another life experience logged and i can honestly say it is not an experience i want to repeat. If its windy, i am not cycling.
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Blog 5
... could see mountains on the horizon, but they were so far away, but you could tell they were big and as i contnued to climb (i was going slow, so the full picture emerged slowly) the mountains just continued to get bigger and bigger, you could see the snow along with some clouds billowing over the tops, fantastic. obviously i realised this was the Pyrennes. But what was so special was the land in front of the mountains was completly flat. i mean i was 150k or so away from these ...
Discovering Nimes
Nimes (pronounced Nim) has 2000 years of history when it was the capital city of Roman Gaul and therefore has some incredible Roman ruins and preserved buildings and is quite a picturesque city.
We began at the Jardins de la Fontaine, 18th century formal gardens constructed around a spring discovered by the Romans. Inside the gardens is a roman ruin of the Temple of Diana and on the mount, is the octagonal ruin of the Tour Magne - once a part of the roman walls and ...
Amazing Millau Viaduct
On our way east across the south of France, we stopped at the Millau Viaduct. It was built between 2002 and 2004 and is an amazing construction, a technical feat. It is 2,460 metres in length and a record height of 343 metres. It has 7 concrete piers ...
Roman Influence and Good bye France
... and still stands, now it is used to show a short movie on the history. You feel important when you climb the steps and look down on those below you.
Vennessa always makes us meringues for Christmas, but never the size of the ones we find in all the bakeries.
Friday morning we get up early and head out into fog and cross the Rhone on a very modern ...
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