Millau Hotel Club

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 ...

So as you all know, I just came back from my 2 1/2 week road trip throughout Spain. For those of you who don't have Facebook, here's a link you can click on that will allow you to view the photo album without joining Facebook:<br><br>http://www.facebook.co m/album.php?aid=2089409&amp;id=3704142& amp;l=a8292393d8<br><br>Overall, this trip has been absolutely amazing. I had never traveled alone before but I have to say ...

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 ...

... have no lighting in them. You have to sound your horn as you enter the tunnel and hope you don't meet a car coming the other way. We did meet a car head on in one of the tunnels, and we had to back out of the tunnel about 250 feet (the other car was further into the tunnel than we were) in order to let them through. Kudos to John for his good backwards driving skills while under pressure!! From here we will head back toward the border of Spain and into the Cathars castle country.

... The largest of these two villages is called Hauterives, and we really want to go back and make arrangements somehow to stay there at some point. We continued on out of the canyon to the town of Millau which is famous for having the highest bridge in the world. It is a 1.5 mile long bridge that spans across a large valley and the bridge reaches a height of over 1300 feet. It was built just a couple of years ago and is considered an engineering ...

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.

... drier than the 2 star ones so we settled on 2 star St Lambert and - guess what - it has an unsecured network, so I've been able to update my blog. It cost us &euro;12.36, but we have paid for electricity tonight. If the campsite is dark and gloomy it's mainly because of the weather - on a hot day in August we would be glad of it. It's very wet underfoot as well, but what can you expect on a river bank in a storm? The toilet block ...

... join in the massive anti-MacDonalds, anti-globalisation protest. We quickly realised that there was no hope of getting a hotel in or around Millau, but we went through the process of going to the Tourist Office anyway, where it was confirmed that we had about as much chance as a snowball in Hell. All we could do, we decided, was to give up on Millau, missing out on all the action, including a huge free concert with some of France's biggest stars, and head for either Beziers or ...