The next day was glorious weather. As the site for the Pond Du Gard did not open until the afternoon, we had a lazy morning at the site and then set off around the corner to the location. We had lunch in the car park (having priced the cafe) and walked up to see the Roman equivalent of the Millau Bridge, only this time it carried water. The children were most unimpressed, but this fell well and truely in to the big engineering project which you might of guessed I...

We awoke to the rain, it appears to have not stopped raining all night. There was a good 5 cm of standing water outside the door. We decided (having experienced other campsites in the rain) to move as quickly as possible before the motorhome sunk into the mud (flooding from the nearby river was not considered to be an issue (even considering the evcuation warnings), as it was a good 2 metres below). Moving out we discovered the reason for the standing water was i...