Hello to Moulézan
Lavaur is in the rearview mirror. Nîmes is a few weeks away.
Last week we crossed the mountains several times as we relocated from our Lavaur apartment to our new one in Moulézan.
Moulézan is a small – emphasis on small – village about 30 minutes from Nîmes. There is a good Restaurant/Café/Taback and a boulangère here. Most people commute into Montpellier or Nîmes to work.
Our apartment is also small. On three floors, the ground floor entrance with laundry and WC on the right. Concrete steps curve up the stone wall at the back providing access to the salon/kitchen. Wooden stairs lead up from there to the bedroom on the third floor. The chambre also has a large sink and a walk shower. It is a well appointed little space that will do us until we move in to our Nîmes condo.
I would love to recommend the space to any couple wishing to visit the area but… if you have mobility issues… stay away. It seems I have buggered my hip and climbing up the last set of stairs to the bedroom is a bit of a challenge. For Liddy it is even more so as the stairs are steep. At fifteen, the pads on her feet have lost all traction so she slips around on smooth floors something fierce.
Canyons and Viaducts
Google, and their various mapping products, finds a new route every time I select new endpoints. Because we were heading west on our way out of Lavaur, we were directed on a new route further north of where we had been crossing the mountains. As we were heading east, this canyon on the La Vis River snuck up on us. I almost launched off that first hairpin curve.
The pin in the map above shows the location of the viewpoint from which the headline photo was taken. It was an awesome drive. Just don’t do it in a longer motor home or truck and trailer rig.
Because I had seen a YouTube video showing the Millau Viaduct, and as it was only a few kilometers north of our path, we diverted up the A75 autoroute to check it out. Impressive is an understatement. Should you ever travel this way, it is a must see.
Another tourist was kind enough to snap a shot for us with the Viaduct in the background. The hash tag is the name of the department where it is located.
Macro Photography Opportunities
We arrived in Moulézan during the late afternoon. Google indicated that our ABNB was at the bottom of a lane. I drove down the lane and found there was no room to turn around in and we wouldn’t be able to unload and get the cargo past the car to the door of our home for the month. OMG what a pain to reverse up the lane.
Further walking around the place and we determined we would have to carry everything about one-hundred-fifty meters from a parking spot to the door. Everything included the microwave and stuff we had picked up from our daughter in Germany. Fortunately, the trailer Liddy and I use when out riding was part of the cargo. We put it to use and didn’t break any backs during the exercise.
On our first morning walk Liddy and I passed these gorgeous flowers growing along a fence.
For once I had the camera attachments for my phone with me. I attached a 300 mm macro lens and captured these beauties.
Every morning I think to grab my tripod and return for more but there is a pretty good boulangère at the end of the walk. It seems to win every time. Something about breakfast, croissants and chocolatines with coffee…