Holiday 2009At the end of July and the beginning of August 2009 Laura and I go on a holiday to France, Andorra and Spain. We want to visit the Ardèche again, having been there previously in 2005. We decide to keep on driving until there's no more clouds to be seen.
Our tent at the camping in Azé.
An old church in Cluny.
Cluny.
There is a lot of green in the town.
Some sort of relic.
Ruins of a large cathedral in the centre, some metres below the level of the rest of the town.
Wall with flowers.
Laura inflates the mats at the camping in Dornas.
Laura on a path in Le Cheylard that's covered with grapes.
Hairpin bend.
A little village.
View of several mountain ridges behind each other.
I stand near a sluice in Dornas.
The basin behind that same sluice.
The church of Dornas, with Laura standing in front of it.
The river in Dornas.
We park the car in a hairpin bend and look back in the direction of the pass to Andorra we just crossed.
Mountain top along the pass.
Laura high up in the mountains in Andorra.
It's cold here.
Maybe the first time in history a Judge Smith T-shirt visited Andorra.
The view from the hotel room.
I'm eating (a part of) the Full Andorran breakfast.
View from our room in hotel Inca.
In the hotel room.
The cathedral at the large square has colourful roofs.
The square is very large. Legend has it that Mary appeared here in the first century of the common era, standing on a pillar. Ever since there has been an abundance of pillars in the city, it seems.
I'm blocking the view from our room in hotel Las Torres.
An old wall in the centre of the town.
Statue of emperor Augustus.
In some places the desert starts immediately at the edge of the city.
The city in bird's-eye view.
The Ebro.
A nun in the square.
A priest in the square.
A little boy chasing away pigeons.
Full moon.
The square at night.
Many people are paddling in the fountain at the square.
The cathedral at night.
Striking differences in colour on the wall of a church.
The little river Huerva, that flows through the park.
Fountain.
A jet of water in another fountain.
Laura at the Ebro.
A church.
The square San Bruno.
Striking Moorish motifs on the wall of the same church.
Tower.
Not much of an audience at the performance.
An arch, somewhere in the city.
The Roman theatre.
Laura in the Roman theatre.
Landscape.
Windmills. There's also a large number of solar collectors in the middle of nowhere.
Irrigation.
Mountain.
Our tent at camping Lili near the village Mixe.
Dark, ominous sky.
An ex-forest.
A few high trees that have survived the storm.
