Friday, from The Camargue to The Auvergne

This was a journey between two very different regions, becoming softer, greener then more mountainous as we moved North. The main road into the Auvergne was a magnificent route through mountain passes and in and out of valleys. We had to peer through the mist in places but could see the splendid scenery from some quite high roads, occasionally with a drop at one side, but not as hair raising as other mountain routes we have taken.
The road took us through Le Puy en Velay about which some rude words have been written by my co-author. There may well be some delightful rustic and picturesque parts to the town which we did not see en passant. It is a town which is supposed to have three peaks, each topped with a church or statue, one of the most impressive sights in France. We found, from the main road through, that it had an impressive amount of road works and traffic lights, also a good number of traffic snarl ups. We didn't see it at its best. We passed a very impressive statue commemorating the resistance, however, but we didn't stop to admire it.
We did a brief supermarket stop and bedded down for the night at Ceyrat, in a leafy berth, with not a mosquito in sight.