Stay: free Aire St Jean du Gard, free services N44°06.094' E3°53.042' / 44.1017, 3.88441
Another interesting day. Visited Pont du Gard. This is a three storey bridge built by the Romans 2000 years ago as part of a 50km aqueduct to carry water from Uzes to Nimes. Quite astonishing as it hasn't been used for over 1500 years. The museum is fantastic and has every detail about the full length of the aqueduct and all the other bridges that were also constructed but are just ruins now. 90% of it was built underground. Amazing.
We decided that our next destination would be on the way the Millau Viaduct. We travelled through the valley filled with vineyards. Then into the mountains. We found an Aire in St Jean du Gard, also in the Gardon River. Once again we have been surprised at what the area has to offer. This is the last stop of a famous trail of Robert Stevenson, a Scottish writer, who with his donkey travelled 12 days and 220km, in 1878. People can now trace his route with donkeys, if they choose. We are now tempted to change our route and leave Millau for another time. We visited a wonderful museum, which depicted traditional local farming. Very extensive, with hundreds of utensils used to for wine making, chestnut farming ( very interesting spiked foot wear pictured below), sheep herding, goat cheese, onion growing and silk production. Well worth a visit with the audio handset. There is also a steam train that runs twice daily to Anduze. Quite a day!
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