Kit and Carol on the Road

Apologies to any of you linear thinkers. This blog is going to jump around through time. I will get back to the bike trip and to adding some photos when I can. Since we have been back "home" in Salleles we have had two short day trips with the car. The car by the way, is a Renault Clio and I'm sorry to say that as far as we know it does not have a name. All of the cars here are tiny which you could understand if you see some of the roads going through the villages. Actually both adventures involve a bridge. Today we went north up into the mountains to see the famous bridge of Millau. It was just completed in 2004. It is very near an area where we were on our 02 tour, on the Tarn River. Both of us forgot a basic rule of the world--the higher you go the colder it gets. We have been living in T shirts and shorts so here we are up at 800 meters or some such heights where the temp dropped down to 12C--plus windchill. On the way up we stopped to see yet another medieval village. This one has an unspellable name and it would have been really cool if it wasn't so chilly. Not quite so touristed as Carcassonne where we were on the bike trip (I'll write about it later), though there was a tour bus load of folks there.

Yesterdays bridge was built about the year 1000 (and is on the Campestello pilgrimage route)and we passed it on the way to the very touristed village of St. Guillam de Desert. It was quiet when we arrived as well and continue to take many photos of buildings. We took a hike up into the hills to look down on the village and had lunch in the square with many other English speaking tourists.