The geography around the south of France is interesting in just the sort of way I love. The coast is rocky, hilly, in some places mountainy, and with it the roads are lovely and curvy – basically, the area is like Cornwall, but red. Little surprise then that when my wife and I discovered this spot some 15 years ago, we made sure to explore the place, and realising it had most of what we looked for in a holiday, would be sure to go back.
One of the mountains here is Pic du Cap Roux. We first climbed this mountain in 2010 when we visited on our honeymoon. That was the time my wife realised just how afraid of heights I actually am. We didn’t do it on our 2014 European road trip, instead exploring the countryside around it. When we returned in 2017 we made sure to climb it again – and yes, this post is that old.
The first thing we saw, pretty much before we started climbing anything, was this cross, catching a shaft of light just right.
Apparently I took very few pictures on the walk up, because my next image is the view from near the top.
The views from up here are amazing. You can see long stretches of the Mediterranean coastline.
I love this view, where you can see the road snaking along the coast and, if you look closely, a little viaduct carrying the railway.
The great views aren’t just looking out to the coast. Looking inland you can see the lumpy, bumpy terrain of this part of the world.
Amongst the hilltops there was an antenna of some sort.
We were far from the only people up there, so a grabbed a few shots of people enjoying the experience.
Whilst I was up here I took a bunch of photos to stitch together. I always take a bit of a chance doing this, as I eyeball it and shoot it handheld, and hope that Lightroom will be able to align al of the shots later on. Really I should be scientific and use a tripod. This time I ended up with quite a wide panorama of the scene.
We moved along and I got a better shot of the coastline in the other direction.
I also got a slightly better angled shot of the tower atop the hill.
And then unfortunately, as quite a few of my photos sets did from back in the latter twenty-teens, the shots just stop. We spent a week in the south of France around this area, so I do have a couple of other posts to come of our adventures, but for now this is the end.
Well, other than the customary gallery of shots.
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