France Trip Spring 2005

Royan

The English have been coming here for a long time

The Open Road

Busy French Motorway

Rural Road

Won't Fit !

On a War Memorial

Spring Vine

First Vine Bud

Gingerbread House in Nevers

Montpellier

I stayed in Filiz's university digs...

...while she went to Paris

Palavas les Flots

Fishing village near Montpellier (flots are waves)

Quick way across the river

Revolving restaurant on top of disused water tower

Hot beach in April

La Grande Motte

Futuristic seaside resort near Montpellier, built in late 1960s

Vichy

Spa town, like Harrogate but with darker history

Source of the famous Vichy Water

The only reference to the war in Vichy