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All the full screen versions of the images of wild flowers can be seen here.

Vetch?    Geraniums (Ragged Robin)?

Monsieur Sauterelle.

All the full screen versions of these images of wild flowers can be seen here.

Violas?    ???    ???    Scabious?    Thyme.   

No tints, no tricks, just pure, unbeatable colour.

Standing next to me Jo said, with perhaps some real anxiety, "You can't take pictures of young boys". What a bloody strange, sick world we do live in, I thought, and took this one anyway.		Below: The reception building, also a restaurant, shop and storage area with the campsite's toilet block in the basement.
	In many regions of France one can see a gable end designed like this (often only the weatherward end). I was much impressed by the single unsupported (other than by having been built through the wall), lengths of stone which formed the stairs to the first floor, and by the (far from vegetarian), dovecot.	Notice the snow gate.

Thinking back to those sheep pouring across the mountainside, just look at the difference between the grazed and the ungrazed land. At least half a dozen varieties of native trees were growing as seedlings amongst the grasses and flowers to the right of the fence. Bloody sheep farmers, I say.

La Grande Cascade, not enormously grand though.

On the campsite I'd stared enviously at a lhd VW T5 Westfalia conversion with a British registration and on our walk to the waterfall we'd got into conversation with its owner. He said he'd noticed our T3 (how could he fail to have!), and (don't they always say this), that he'd once owned one too.

We nattered on and he told us he'd bought his T5 from Deepcar, near Sheffield, and how pleased he was with that firm.

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