Citotel Jalade Millau

Took us a while to find a park last night as we were aiming to stay in Le Rozier which is close to the start of Gorges de Tarn as that was the drive we wanted to do today. <br><br>Unfortunately roadworks stood in our way and we took the next best option of the drive through Gorges du la Jonte. <br><br>Stunning is the best way to descirbe this drive. I got the ...

... such a huge amount of confidence to travel around Asia. I know that Spain is a little more tame than Asia, but I know that now I can be alone and I will be okay. I had never been truly on my own and I was really scared about it, but now, I embrace the opportunity. I believe everyone should travel alone, male or female, just to see what it's like. This just may be the most liberating experience of my life...so far.<br>

So I'm going to nix Portugal from my plans. I started getting a bad feeling when I called them the other day in order to confirm my arrival and they had no idea who I was. Maybe I spoke too fast, but they seemed really confused by my arrival. I sent an email to the guy and he seemed really mad that my dates kept changing and he told me it wasn't worth their time if I came less ...

<br><br>So here I am, I finally arrived in France. After a difficult goodbye at the airport, I was on my way to the great unknown. But before I started that, I had to go to the bathroom&#8230;and brush my teeth; one<br>thing at a time here. My flights all went really well and I never had to wait more than one hour during my connecting flights. I had a wonderful delicious airplane meal ...

... with steep drop offs and no guard rails... and those are the highways!! Wouldn't want to be one of those ashen faced motorhome drivers or the poor guy in the tour bus. In the Gorge the road is also pretty narrow with many tunnels and rock cuts. Took many pictures of this wild rugged area. Not only were there beautiful rock formations but the hill towns (built right in to the rock) were very unique. Right out of a story ...

We have made it to the village of Brousse le Chateau. WOW!!!! That is the only word to describe how cool this place is. The "chateau" is actually an old castle on a cliff and the village is built beneath and leading up to it. The castle was built in 1040 and the village bridge (which is still used!) was built in 1366. There is a small mountain river that runs through the center of the village. We are staying beneath the castle in a little inn called Le Relays du Chateau. The ...

... and white snap dragons, and wild hyacinths in pink, purple, and yellow. This area is really a nature lover's dream come true. From here we continued deeper into the canyon and followed the road along the river. There are two small villages on the opposite side of the river that are not connected with roads and are only accessible by hiking trails, boats on the river or by a "basket" that carries you across the gorge to the village!!! (see photos ...

We are still staying in Florac tonight, but we took a beautiful drive to this village today. The Cevennes national park countryside is gorgeous with big, green hills and hardly any homes or buildings...just countryside! We went on a 5km hike to the Chateau Roquedhouil, a nice old home built in the 1500's. There was a very tall sequoia tree that was planed in 1887 and was about 25 feet in circumference.

... to see the giant 'bridge amongst the clouds'. It's 2 ½ km long, and over 300 m high. It was absolutely beautiful day - so not a cloud in the sky to get that sort of perspective. But it was well worth a look, just the same. After this extra, extra visit it was already after 12 o'clock ... then we finally began the rest of the more than 6 hour journey through the south of France and into Barcelona. Yay!

... I don't readily understand his language. By now we are making use of sign and mime and I have gathered that he is preparing for a job on a Montpellier vineyard as it is now the season to harvest grapes. I have driven north from the Cevennes where I was staying in a small village called La Trivalle near Les Gorges D'Heric in the Languedoc National Park. If it hadn't been for clouds of silt and ballooning fog I would have stayed longer but the need to drive ...