…. we live, in fact. Between two rivers, which often contain hardly any water but can also become raging and all-destroying torrents, when an excessive amount of rain has fallen in the Cevennes. Like in March 2024, when six people died in the Gard alone, after a shower with as much rain as is normal in an entire month, with both rivers rising five or six metres higher than in summer.
But the varied landscape is breathtaking: sometimes one drives through lovely valleys, five minutes later along a spectacular rocky gorge or on a road stuck to the mountainside and full of tunnels, and still a little later one descends from the plateau to the river valley with dozens of hairpin bends. Medieval villages where houses almost blend together and streets are too narrow for cars. Mountain peaks where daredevils plunge into the abyss hanging from paragliders. And above all, lots of restaurants, bistros, terraces and markets. We live in a tourist area. Wait and see how it is in summer….