A Fun Final Weekend in Privas

Last weekend one of Matt's friends Agnes came to visit us. Agnes grew up near Paris, and despite being French had never been to this region of France. We had a good time showing her the town on Saturday and going for a long hike on Sunday. In the process we found some roman ruins and waterfalls, which we have been searching for for some time.



It was nice to have a visit in town... because it gave me an excuse to go on one final tour of some of the sites around town. Here's Matt, Agnes and I in and around Privas.







On Sunday we went on a hike down a country lane that we have gone down many times. This takes you to a mountainous area with lots of ravines. As you can see from Agnes's picture this area is extremely dry at this time of year and is so dry it reminds me of Ridgecrest.



For several months Matt has been trying to figure out how to get to waterfalls and a roman aqueduct in this area. The first trail we tried was very pretty and we eventually found a side trail that led us down to the creek.





As we were searching for a place to eat a picnic lunch, I found one of the first wildflowers of the season. Spring is definitely on its way here. Every day I hear more birds and see a little more green in the landscape.



We did a bit more searching of the creek after lunch and then headed back down to look for the aqueduct and waterfall.







We had almost given up finding the waterfalls and aqueduct, when we decided to hop a fence and try one more path. Luckily this was the right way and in less than a quarter mile we had found what we were looking for. The first picture is of me standing on top of the aqueduct. It was difficult to photograph from below because it was so overgrown, but the two waterfalls were very pretty.









It was a very pretty little canyon.







It was the kind of hike where even at the end we just couldn't stop taking pictures. Here's a wide view of the canyon.





This was a very nice way to spend one of my last weekends in France.