As was the rest of the morning. We visited the Pont du Gard,
first calling in at the visitor centre where there was a museum. I thought at first that it would be underwhelming, but in fact it was much bigger than it appeared with a terrific overview of Roman civilisation, especially plumbing! They had really sophisticated pipes, taps, etc. There was also a brilliant fly-over of the whole route of the aqueduct, of which the Pont de Gard is only a tiny bit.
After that, we walked down to the bridge itself, and half way across it,
taking loads of photos, before coming back and having coffee in the visitor centre.
Our next destination, not counting a supermarket, was Orange, where the Swan Whisperer had found the ideal car park, he thought, nice and near the Arc de Triomphe there.
It would have been nice, but it was full to overflowing! Fortunately there was a Lidl a few hundred metres down the road, so we pulled in there and ate lunch in its car park (I popped in and bought some bananas, which I had a coupon for). We found we could drive round the arch, so did so before saying a sad farewell to the South and heading north, via a very pretty town called Bourg-Saint-Andéol,
and going via the Gorges de l'Ardèche
and the Pont d'Arc
to this town which is called Ruoms. The aire is overlooking the Ardèche.
As always, more photos on Facebook.
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