Pont du Gard

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07 October 2013

The weather improved and we made the most of it.

After a stroll around Florac, we drove the Corniche des Cevennes with tremendous views of the national park of that name. On route we did a 30 minute walk up to the summit of St-Pierre and having worked up an appetite took lunch in a small restaurant in the town of St-Jean-du-Guard.

The rest of the day was spent visiting one of our planned destinations for this trip, The Pont du Gard, a bridge crossing the River Gardon which was built by the Romons in the first century AD as part of a 50k aqueduct supplying water to the city of Nimes. It was every bit as spectacular as we had expected and looked beautiful in the early evening sunshine

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