We realised today that we have been more than a little remiss with the blog the last 10 days or so. This has been because we have either been travelling, heading north, or enjoying some good old fashioned doing nothing whilst taking in the sun.
We needed to make progress north to attend a wedding on the 30th, and we still want to visit Scandinavia this summer.
Whilst on our visit to the Millau visitors centre earlier in the week we had picked up a Discovery Guide to Aveyron, in which was an article about “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France”. One of the 10 listed villages in Aveyron was Peyre, just a very short 11 km drive downstream from Millau.
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As both of us are cheese lovers, including Roquefort, we felt a visit to the very place of its origins was worthwhile.
A 27 km drive away through the Parc Natural Régional des Grands Causses is the village of Roquefort sur Soulzon.
This morning we set off to visit the Le Viaduc de Millau. As it forms part of the A75 autoroute we drove a short way north of Millau to join the road then headed south toward the viaduct.
With the weather forecast for Bidart predicting wet weather for the next few days it was time to move on. The weather over to the east of France was supposedly much better so we decided to head that way.
I had visited Millau two times previously on my motorcycle trips, and the viaduct and surrounding area are amazing. Kim had not been there so it was decided to head that way. We thought that the trip was too many kilometres for one day so headed for Camping Midi Pyrénées, at Montréjeau, an easy couple of hours away, for a one or two night stopover.