Tuesday 1st April
Today we have finally reached the Mediterranean at a place
called Agde, but first up today was a visit to the Castle at Les Baux de
Provence. To get to the castle you first had to walk up through the lovely
village of Les Baux. Some beautiful shops – all for the tourist of course.
Bought some of the local nougat for the journey.
| Chocolates, biscuits and nougat |
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| Village streets |
The castle was built on the highest point in the area and
looked out over the surrounding valleys. Again we ran into groups of schoolkids
and the ones here were given ‘lessons’ in loading up and firing a trebuchet and
also archery.
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| The battering ram |
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| Trebuchet |
From there we headed to Agde via a place called Aigues
Mortes. This was another walled village – you park the car outside and then
just wander the streets in the village. Again this is geared to the tourist. We
passed up a tour of the castle and medieval lessons – don’t want to overdo it –
and just had lunch here.
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| Entrance to Aigues Mortes |
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| ... and the village streets |
We thought the drive to Agde would be more picturesque as it
went right alongside the sea, but the land was totally flat and they’d built up
alongside the road so we could see nothing. Tomorrow we’ll make sure we see something of
the sea before we leave here.
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| Pink flamingos in the lakes alongside the sea |
We have moved away from the ‘cheap as chips’ chain of hotels
that seems to cater to the tradie type business people, and tonight have come
to a B&B hotel where we feel like we are staying in someone’s home. (and the internet here is brilliant compared to some we have had) The location is right on the river and we were able to cross to the other side of
the river, where there are floating restaurants, for dinner tonight. We enjoyed
a lovely seafood dinner; up there with the best meals we have had so far this trip.
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| Our hotel on the river |
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