Grimsayer

By Grimsayer

View from a tent

Our tour of the SW of France has started. Early this morning we drove to Nimes Airport for Dom to pick up his friends to celebrate his 21st and for us to pick up our Fiat Panda for the next ten days. Surprisingly spacy considering how small it is.
Our tour guide is a book of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France - their website is here. This is to me the French equivalent of the Good Pub Guide in the UK. It features about 100 of the prettiest villages in France and like the Good Pub Guide has rarely let us down The villages are all small, generally unspoilt and always beautiful.
Today we ended up in Belcastel, just West of Rodez, and the campsite is on the river bank almost underneath the town. The bridge in the image crosses from our side to the other with the ruined castle and a variety of steeply roofed houses clinging precariously to the steep hillside. Pretty little spot.
Our third LPBV of the day and we weren't let down by any of them. Brousse-le-Chateau - a small village under a huge castle with a manicured stream running past a terrace of houses with the inevitable Pont Romain - and Sauveterre-de-Rouergue - a seemingly deserted village with the whole central square consisting of arcaded buildings.
The only disappointment of the day was the restaurant in the evening - a little unwelcoming and lacking real character. Tant pis.

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