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Old 18-01-11, 07:12 AM   #21
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Yeah, the Gorge du Tarn is amazing, we stayed in a really nice hotel there, I need to ask my parents what it was called as I'd love to go back.
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Old 18-01-11, 08:43 AM   #22
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If you go to the Gorge Du Tarn take short detour to see Aven Armand.

You travel a 300 feet down into a vast cavern where there are hundreds of stalagmites and stalactites, many are millions of years old and truly enormous, breathtaking, you have to see it to believe it.
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Old 18-01-11, 08:44 PM   #23
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Ooh lovely. I like that sort of stuff.
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Old 18-01-11, 08:56 PM   #24
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No-one has mentioned Arles yet, so I'll chuck that into the ring. Worth a visit just for the Roman amphitheatre, as seen in Ronin. Then you could drive through the camargue, with its white horses, black bulls and flamingoes, to Saintes Maries De La Mer. From there, head back to Nimes and take the D999 to Sauclieres, and then the D991 through the Gorges de Dourbie to Millau.

Funnily enough, we're doing that in June!
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Old 18-01-11, 09:37 PM   #25
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Pont Du Gard. Three tiered Roman aqueduct, you can't climb over it like you used to be able to, but it's still well worth a look.
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Old 29-06-11, 10:37 PM   #26
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Thanks for all of your suggestions folks.

We went to a little town near Tours for three days, went to a village near Cahors for another three, camped in a lovely place down the road from the Gorge Du Tarn for three days followed by another three days in a converted pigsty in the (pretty scary) Pyrenees with Florac as the nearest town.

All in we basically travelled all the way down through France from Caen and covered virtually 2000 miles coming home on an overnight ferry from Bilbao.

We done the Mulsane straight (thanks Fizz and Squid!) and as it was just after the 24 hour race there was lots of protection still out so even better. We also saw the Gorge Du Tarn, albeit from the road, the Millau bridge, Chenonceau and Aven Amand. We also managed to see about 4 or 5 of the 100 most beautiful (as voted by ??) villages in France. When we win the lottery we'll be buying a camper van and doing the other 95.

It was a lovely holiday and I even managed to pick up a fiancé on the way!
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Old 29-06-11, 10:38 PM   #27
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Carcassone is a great place to stop for a couple of days, one of the largest medieval cities in the world (I think) and not far from Millau (big bridge) and the Tarn Gorge (amazing roads)
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Old 29-06-11, 11:47 PM   #28
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+1 on the fiancée

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Old 07-07-11, 08:45 AM   #29
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Old 07-07-11, 04:03 PM   #30
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Try here as well, near LeMans, english, excellent hospitality and there's nothing wrong with the wine http://www.lalunelake.co.uk/Bed_%26_Breakfast.html if anyone thinking of going again.

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