Comments on: Architecture 100 :: 24 – Rural France http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2012/08/04/architecture-100-24-rural-france/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2012/08/04/architecture-100-24-rural-france/comment-page-1/#comment-19525 CherryPie Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:56:23 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=8681#comment-19525 The main problem for us was the hire car was a cabriolet and the lines of vision were narrower than the sides of the car... It needed two people to navigate through the narrow road and up the hill to Rennes-le-Chateau. I was on the side away from the drop as we went up and I commented that I would need a tranquilizer if we had to go back on the same route... There was a better route to take us to the Gorges. But I didn't get many photos of the gorges, due to the narrowness of the road and having to help navigate ;-) The main problem for us was the hire car was a cabriolet and the lines of vision were narrower than the sides of the car… It needed two people to navigate through the narrow road and up the hill to Rennes-le-Chateau.

I was on the side away from the drop as we went up and I commented that I would need a tranquilizer if we had to go back on the same route…

There was a better route to take us to the Gorges. But I didn’t get many photos of the gorges, due to the narrowness of the road and having to help navigate ;-)

]]> By: ivan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2012/08/04/architecture-100-24-rural-france/comment-page-1/#comment-19523 ivan Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:21:20 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=8681#comment-19523 It should be, another <b>road</b> of the same width. It should be, another road of the same width.

]]> By: ivan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2012/08/04/architecture-100-24-rural-france/comment-page-1/#comment-19522 ivan Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:19:33 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=8681#comment-19522 Ah, the joys of travelling through small rural villages in France. The real fun begins when you drive down a road that is about 50cm wider than the car and you have to make a right angle turn into another roar of the same width. I did that five or six times a day - plus the return trip - for over a week moving building supplies 1.5km uphill for a friend in my 4x4 pickup truck. Needless to say, by the end of the time it was a simple operation, yet I had to sit and wait for a driver in a 2CV to back and fill for half an hour when he should have been able to just drive round. The main thing is that it is now part of life that I would miss if I ever moved away. Ah, the joys of travelling through small rural villages in France. The real fun begins when you drive down a road that is about 50cm wider than the car and you have to make a right angle turn into another roar of the same width.

I did that five or six times a day – plus the return trip – for over a week moving building supplies 1.5km uphill for a friend in my 4×4 pickup truck.

Needless to say, by the end of the time it was a simple operation, yet I had to sit and wait for a driver in a 2CV to back and fill for half an hour when he should have been able to just drive round.

The main thing is that it is now part of life that I would miss if I ever moved away.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2012/08/04/architecture-100-24-rural-france/comment-page-1/#comment-19521 CherryPie Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:57:25 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=8681#comment-19521 It is wonderful village :-) It is wonderful village :-)

]]> By: CrashRyan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2012/08/04/architecture-100-24-rural-france/comment-page-1/#comment-19520 CrashRyan Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:27:10 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=8681#comment-19520 cool building ....! cool building ….!

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