Pont du Gard... it is huge! Walking on an aqueduct helps to appreciate the actual size of the structure and the skills of the builders..... Climbing above the aqueduct makes me appreciate the benefits of flat land!
From Uzes to Nimes, the water flowed. Roman usage was some incredible number of gallons per day and their demand for water was so great that they had to draw it from as far away as Uzes and the only way it could be obtained was throughout he construction of various aqueducts.... this one at Pont du Gard is in excellent condition and is classified as a world heritage site.
Th tourist horde was only partly there... 6 busloads and only a few cars in the carpark... The Blue Beast could relax!....
We wandered onto the site.... and even though we were out early, it was hot! and the area radiates heat too........ beads of sweat across womanly brows....... skin softened .........
Graffitti is not new either..... this bridge is covered in the record of lives from 1700's and the 1800's....... random French people who were immortalised on the Pont du Gard!
Suddenly the very happy cries of flocks of school children of the very short variety...... scary to hear! Frantic to find seclusion, away from childish energy.......... we did..... and lunched on the bank of the river, roasted in the sun.....
A story with no pictures........ no not really, it is a theory with no pictures.......... it is my observation that men"of a certain age"( cough), choose black budgie smugglers over any other form of bathing attire and wear them with pride.... isn't that a nice story? I saw them out today... I think if I had stayed for longer my vision would have been a massive blackness.... pleased we left........
The tourist hordes began just as refinished lunching and began the arduous task of snoozing......... only to be woken by a loud brash group of American students, obviously of the football bonding variety.... who announced their presence to the world( very thoughtfully as we might not have noticed them)
This area is one of the sites of the discovery of very ancient humans..... in this area there is evidence of humans living over a million years ago!Is that right? Where we were, it was during the Upper Paleolithic Period that humans lived and sheltered in the cave near the river...... there was art work but that has since been removed to safety........
And we cooked and overheated!
As the area filled , we left! Drove back through a tiny little ancient village..
But you need to see some random shots
Th tourist horde was only partly there... 6 busloads and only a few cars in the carpark... The Blue Beast could relax!....
We wandered onto the site.... and even though we were out early, it was hot! and the area radiates heat too........ beads of sweat across womanly brows....... skin softened .........
Graffitti is not new either..... this bridge is covered in the record of lives from 1700's and the 1800's....... random French people who were immortalised on the Pont du Gard!
The tourist hordes began just as refinished lunching and began the arduous task of snoozing......... only to be woken by a loud brash group of American students, obviously of the football bonding variety.... who announced their presence to the world( very thoughtfully as we might not have noticed them)
This area is one of the sites of the discovery of very ancient humans..... in this area there is evidence of humans living over a million years ago!Is that right? Where we were, it was during the Upper Paleolithic Period that humans lived and sheltered in the cave near the river...... there was art work but that has since been removed to safety........
As the area filled , we left! Drove back through a tiny little ancient village..
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