Sunday

Yesterday at Aigues-Mortes, there was a stall selling books with interesting wooden covers with leather spines and wraparound catches. Naturally I had to have one.

The covers consist of two stout pieces of wood with a pattern cut through the top one and the one below dyed a different colour.

Here is the back. Will I ever use it? Probably not but I can put it on my book shelves and admire it.

Today Ruth, Robin and I went to Barbegal. 'The greatest technology complex in the Roman world' and there were only three or four people there. It consists of an aqueduct which split into two at the top of steep hill and fed two lines of water mills down the hill, eight on each side. They could grind enough flour to feed 10,000 people throughout the year.

This shows the bases of four of the mills on either side. You can see how steep the drop is.

And this is looking the other way, at the aqueduct which supplied the water.

And here is a drawing of what it must have looked like. Drawing from www.waterhistory.org. On the way back we looked at the Abbey of Montmajor, having eaten half a baguette full of merguez which I love. Interestingly merguez are Spanish and in Spain they are far less spicy than in the south of France. Me, I like the French version.

There is talk of going to the seaside tomorrow. Not me. I have never been enthusiastic about sitting for hours on a beach. I shall stay here and try to get to grips with iWeaveit.

 

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