Blogs from Aigues-Mortes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Europe

It’s been a while since we’ve visited this part of the Camargue. I brought my daughters here in 1990, driving all the way in 2 days with them in my Astra GTE and we stayed in a Eurocamp caravan at Port Camargue. I can remember walking into Aigues-Mortes and my eldest telling me to put the camera away as I looked like a tourist 😊 That’s where we headed today. Extremely hot and indeed full of tourists when we got there. The first 3 carparks said they were full, though annoyingly as we drove past we saw several empty spots. Managed to find a space in the car park at the end of the city walls and walked in through one of the gates. The walls are so impressive, completely surrounding the town inside. Outside there ... read more

Last night I lay in bed watching the stars through the Heiki roof light. I thought about another thought for the day “We contemplate the clear moon and we reflect a mind empty as the open sky. We lose ourselves in the shadows it casts”. We woke, breakfasted, I ministered to the huge mosquito bites Glenn has been subjected to. All I am suffering from are red burning knees from the baking sun and a blooming great cold sore which has miraculously appeared giving me gip. Where are we today? Where is Suzy taking us to? The Camargue a strange land of etangs full of pink flamingos, black bulls, white horses and cowboys. It feels wild and desolate in parts but equally beautiful. We love this area and are headed for Aigues Mortes. Glenn visited for ... read more

As most of the cycling group were heading towards yet another Mediterranean beach (always disappointing by Australian standards!), we opted to explore an area of salt production in the Aigues-Mortes salt marshes. This was only a 15 min bike ride from where the boat was moored and proved to be incredibly interesting and scenic…a beautiful range of colours in the ponds of different salt concentration, including pinks contributed to by algae which are eaten by brine shrimps, which are eaten by flamingos. A whole ecosystem of amazing diversity tolerant to salt has developed in this area. The salt production has been going on since IV BC and now extends over thousands of hectares. A tourist train took us around the whole operation including a fascinating Musee de Sel. A walking tour within & around Aigues-Mortes occupied ... read more

Geo: 43.5686, 4.19076 GÜN 28 ,GÜNLERDEN CUMA Yerimizi değiştirmemiz çok verimli sonuçlar verdi Kamikaze sivrisinek akınları yok gibi… Yağmurlu bir ortam var. Bu nedenle içeride vakit geçiriyoruz.. 10:00 a doğru nasılsa yağmur kesildi. Kahvaltımı yaptım ..sabah aktiviteleri tamamlandı. Ortalığı toparladım . Öğlen,hafif yemek adına, kampta yemeye karar verdik. Öğleden sonra giyindik,kuşandık ve yakında bulunan, Aigues Mortes'a gitmek üzere yola çıktık. Yolda, resmen, pembe renkli göllerin içinde süzülen pembe flamingolar aklımızı başımızdan aldı götürdü… Keyfimiz yerine geldi… Nereyi çekeceğimizi şaşırdık Aigues Mortes,muhteşem bir yer… Daha uzaktan, şehir ,sizi etkisi altına almaya başlıyor.. Nasılsa Şahbaz'a ( Minibüs ... read more

after 3 hours in the sunshine on a sunday morning we were in Aigues Mortes. We'd seen camargue horses alongside the canal and the wind had died down a little. Aigues Mortes instantly impressed us. It's a fortified town, with all the main streets, restaurants, shops etc contained within the walls. Its narrow streets are cobbled and every so often there's a lookout post cut into the wall. I kepot expecting to see knights ride up on horses. We went for a walk once we'd tied up. Outside the walls of the town was a fiarground and a makeshift arena had been built at the rear. Something was going on – how exciting! We walked through the town and saw tables and a stage set up in the square, the tables covered in pink and orange ... read more