Today is
another conspiracy in zooming. We have earmarked a couple of likely stops and a
couple of back ups, but we’ve had enough of rain and are determined to outrun
it, this results in some grand hops. Villeneuve
is a really pretty little town and on any other day we probably would have
stayed. It’s got a tiny old charming centre, with an old bastide thingy and
there’s a local football match on and the market is going strong. However, it
is still chucking it down. On we go.
Villefranche de Roeurgue is also a likely candidate, but parking becomes problematic
and nobody can be bothered to tramp into the town and get wet. Imagine trying
to drag a rhino out of a bog and you can picture what it’s like trying to get
Norm to walk anywhere in the rain. We move on.
The weather
looks a bit better further south so we decide to head towards Najac. Najac is
indeed beautiful and sunny. We stop for lunch, but the aire is at a bottom of a
cliff that we can’t be bothered to walk up to get to amenities (beautiful
though the aire is) and our current needs (civilisation!!) aren’t met.
We move on.
We take the scenic route via Lajoupie which is really stunning…So stunning that
we can’t remember if this is the right picture of it… but you get the gist!
As we
travel further south we notice the landscape changing… the med is definitely
getting closer, but oddly everything starts to feel and look more Italian rather
than French Med. It’s all beautiful.. we zoom past Cordes sur Ciel and it looks
pretty jaw dropping. And very Italian. Weird. Have we had one of those sat nav
fails you hear about, are we in fact near the Nazionale???
Anyway, we
arrive at Albi, well sign posted free aire, perfectly located in the Castelviel
district at the foot of the Cathedral. Albi just beautiful.
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