I decided to take it easy today and join the Sud de France’s organised tour. The highlight of today would be the Pont du Gard, one of the finest and best preserved part of the aqueduct built in AD 52 to bring water from a spring near Uzes to Nimes. The water crosses the Gardon at the height of 48 metres (and we went up and walked across this area)

A thousand men worked on the site using more than 50,000 tonnes of stone. It’s amazing when you think of it. Today we take construction of things like this for granted but in AD 38 when construction started, I cannot even begin to fathom how they managed to lift the stones and place them in the correct position. No cement was used to join the stones, and it’s all just precise architecture holding it.

This is on the Unesco World Heritage list, and it deserves to be on it!

These 2 pictures were taken from the top of the Pont (where the water used to flow across). I did a very amaterish job of combining the photos to give you a better representation of the view which I appreciated today!

We then went for lunch and then to Nimes, a place which I already went to yesterday. Tomorrow we begin proper business of meeting wine producers and doing further tastings so I better take a good rest tonight. More later…