Camargue, France - Montélimar, Nimes, Marseille - 400 miles

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The latest edition of Tourenfahrer magazine (March 2023) has a piece on this unusual area of France, where the delta of the Rhone river enters the Mediterranean.

Bods looking for mountain views and twisties will be very disappointed, as it makes Lincolnshire look like the Alps. But for somewhere that is ‘different’ for a couple of days, it is definitely worth a look. We used to go to the excellent beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer at least once or twice a summer.

https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/noch-einmal-blau-1222/detail/

Copy the route from the magazine’s very good map or spend a pound or so on the download.

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Yep, excellent. Flocks of flamingoes, wild horses and bulls etc.
Highlight for us was the walled town of Aigues-Mortes.
 
Aigues-Mortes is indeed a very nice town. It used to be right on the coast, but the millions of tons of mud that the river Rhône brings down with it, now mean it is well inland. The small thatched white houses are something to see, too.
 
A spectacular area for sure, but the horse flies in summer will bite through clothing…
 


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