Monday, February 26, 2007
13th January
We took a visit to the Pont du Gard on a beautiful sunny day. At Pont du Gard there are remains of a Roman aqueduct, which at 49m is the highest they ever built. So we marvelled at their engineering and architecture, Jon took some excellent photos and then we traversed the woods surrounding it. The boys really enjoyed this and although we were walking for about 2 hours they only started moaning at the end.
The following day we did our own walking tour of Arles. We had a scant look at the ruined roman theatre and decided not to pay to go in and marvel at what was little more than a pile of stones. We went on to the Roman amphitheatre proclaiming to be one of the best preserved Roman sites.
The day after, thanks to our Satellite navigation system we drove through many small villages with impossibly narrow roads and sharp bends to visit the nuclear exhibition centre. It was not really suitable for small children as it did not have enough interactive elements and it was aimed at a higher intellectual level. It was all a bit too science based and far too much reading to keep me interested too (yes I suppose I am admitting that I am not intellectual!).
On the way to the exhibition the car was constantly beeping telling us to “Check the brake-pads”. We couldn’t believe it! So the next day Jon found a land rover dealer in Nimes and armed with a few phrases set off to get all four brake-pads replaced.
