Left Montpelier at 8.00 and took circuitous route north of Nimes via Sommieres (very pretty) and Uzes (also lovely) in order to see the Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard. Put off by tourists and €20 fee so tootled on south to marked but actually closed campsite at Montfrin.
Too tired after 100k to search more and decided to try to rough it camping on the local football pitch. However, I had first to invest in my first ever 'bas collants' (knee-length stockings) in order to keep the flies at bay. Can't imagine why the local gendarmerie kept driving past me as I waited for dusk to fall on a local park bench, knocking back a can of Leffe, in my fetching stockings!
After a couple of hours of cat and mouse, I dove down the lane behind the pitches and found a corner of a foreign field which is now forever England and which did very nicely...
I can now announce that, if for no other reason, my trip has been a success because I have been to the home of Harribo! Estelle's house is right behind the giant, sweet-smelling monster which is to be found - or avoided - in Pont des Charettes.
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