Some more holiday photos

Here we are on our last full day and it will be a while before I get to blogging properly, so I’m uploading a few more pics from my iPad. My, how the temps have changed - seeing myself in a jacket is funny now, as we have sweltered since the day after these photos were taken!

These next few pictures were whilst we were staying at Millau, and we visited the Chaos de Montpellier-le-Vieux, an area of amazing rock formations. There was a little train doing some of the route so we were able to walk one way then get the train back.  Many of the rocks had names after what the person who named them thought they resembled - certainly it was easy to see faces in the rocks!

We then drove up to a viewpoint overlooking Millau and the relatively new Viaduct de Millau (motorway bridge), unfortunately not very clear on this hazy day here. 

There was a man climbing up inside this transmission tower - enough to give you vertigo! 

The next day we drove south to the Cirque de Navacelles - a gorge with a horseshoe meander where the river had cut a short cut through over thousands of years to leave a hill with some flat land around, now agricultural land on presumably lovely loam soil. This was the start of the warm weather, and the start of several days of amazing amounts of butterflies! 💕 We stopped at various viewpoints on both sides of the gorge, and drove down into it to get to the other side, but didn’t try to get right down to the village in a motorhome. There was nowhere to stop on this road - such a shame as there were clouds of butterflies! We knew many were Black Satyrs, which I had never seen before but K had discovered last year on one of his long walks. Luckily he spotted a single one at the top so I was able to see it properly. I will keep all the butterfly images for a real blog post later on. 

From the other side - in some views you can clearly see the road we took.

After the Cirque we drove north to the highest point in the Aveyron dept, Mt Aigoual, then the next day to the highest point in the neighbouring Lozere dept, called Mt Lozere. We then headed into the Ardeche, drove the gorges there (after having a lovely lunch out with an old school friend who I last saw when she came to our house in Brittany maybe 15 years ago), then the Pont du Gard, a bit of the Camargue, and now staying in the Petit Camargue near Le Grau du Roi and Aigues Mortes, which is impressive. I don’t have time to load more photos so I’ll leave it for now and try to do a proper post soon!