Day 10
Clermont-Ferrand, France to Toulouse, France -- 520km
The middle of France is vast. Lots of km without seeing much of houses or villages. After a while, time to stop by a service area or just area (aire) as the french call it, a beautiful one, up in the mountains. Big stones outside, wood inside, beautiful.
We took a longer way to Toulouse but we wanted to go by the Millau viaduct. It’s just the highest in the world! And it’s impressive, although crossing it we don’t see much as probably we would see by air.
After that we got out of the highway and went by a simple road. As we crossed Roquefort - I would swear the famous cheese smell was in the air - we had to stop to allow for cows to pass by us in the road.
Then Toulouse, a nice town. No problem in finding the hotel, our room was in the 8th floor. I could see my CR-V parked!
Violet is the flower common everywhere, and not just the flower, but cookies, jam, and lots of different stuff made from the flower. I believe all the shop windows have some violet motif.
We enjoyed walking around. As the weather was good we had dinner outside, in a square.
Then rest, next day would be the last and longer journey.
Clermont-Ferrand, France to Toulouse, France -- 520km
The middle of France is vast. Lots of km without seeing much of houses or villages. After a while, time to stop by a service area or just area (aire) as the french call it, a beautiful one, up in the mountains. Big stones outside, wood inside, beautiful.
We took a longer way to Toulouse but we wanted to go by the Millau viaduct. It’s just the highest in the world! And it’s impressive, although crossing it we don’t see much as probably we would see by air.
After that we got out of the highway and went by a simple road. As we crossed Roquefort - I would swear the famous cheese smell was in the air - we had to stop to allow for cows to pass by us in the road.
Then Toulouse, a nice town. No problem in finding the hotel, our room was in the 8th floor. I could see my CR-V parked!
Violet is the flower common everywhere, and not just the flower, but cookies, jam, and lots of different stuff made from the flower. I believe all the shop windows have some violet motif.
We enjoyed walking around. As the weather was good we had dinner outside, in a square.
Aaaah, the pies, the pies, you haven't mentioned the pies!!!
ReplyDeleteI will go back to Toulouse one day to finally try those mythical pies..