Tag: adventure
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Canal du Midi: Expectations, Reality and a Lesson in Slowing Down
When we booked a week on the Canal du Midi, I had a fairly clear picture in my head of what it would be like. The brochures showed boats gliding through tunnels of shady trees, with dappled sunlight on the water and picturesque villages appearing every few kilometres. In many ways, that’s exactly what we…
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A Quick Update from France
If you’ve been wondering why things have gone a little quiet lately, there’s a good reason. The plan had been to spend some time travelling through southern France while still keeping up with writing and posting. As it turned out, the weather had other ideas. During our week on the Canal du Midi the heat…
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The Geology Around Sète – Sea, Limestone and Lagoons
Sète sits on one of the most distinctive stretches of the French Mediterranean coast – a place where hard limestone hills meet shifting sand barriers, salt lagoons and the open sea. For somebody with a geology background, it is a fascinating landscape because almost every part of it tells a different story about changing sea…