{"id":34707,"date":"2023-09-15T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=34707"},"modified":"2023-09-15T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:16:18","slug":"la-couvertoirade-france-%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=34707","title":{"rendered":"La Couvertoirade, France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 13th September 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 90 kms from Ruoms to Le Cavalerie <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: La Couvertoirade  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Le Cavalerie Aire CC, \u20ac12, N44.00880, E03.15230  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 114 days @ \u20ac96 per da<\/strong>y<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We left the aire in Ruoms with little fanfare this morning. It had rained heavily overnight and despite everything being a little sodden the sun broke out as we were servicing the Hymer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve set the GPS for the village of La Couvertoirade, despite the fact its only 60 kms away the GPS tell us 90 minutes which seems a long time for the distance but soon enough we find our drive is through the Gorges de la Vis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drive through the Gorge is picturesque, but if your driving, your too busy with single lane bridges, narrow winding road and worrying about what\u2019s coming around the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La Couvertoirade is situated south of Millau about 6-7 kms of the A75, but taking the A75 will not get you there. We follow the old highway which parallels the A75 for 15kms before the turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From our guide book the Most Beautiful Villages of France you\u2019ll find\u00a0La Couvertoirade on page 190. Standing on the wide sweeping hills of the Causse du Larzac is seems like dry open country for the Templars to build on outpost in the 12th century. Apparently part of a strategic line of outpost, than a formed passage to the Holy Lands. It was taken over and expanded by the Knights Hospitaliers (another band of mercenary monks) in the 14th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today its somewhat restored to it glory days with the addition of some tat shops, and artisan craft shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Portal D\u2019Amoun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Behind a cottage the Church Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 12th century Templars\u2019Castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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La Couvertoirade is certainly worth a stop and interesting to explore, it would have been much more interesting with some more information panels. There wasn\u2019t many even in French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our tour completed we walk back to the Hymer, pay the parking fee of \u20ac4 and set the GPS for an aire in Le Cavalerie. Our plan for a late afternoon walk into Cavalerie is brought undone by a thunderstorm and a couple of hours rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that was our day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 13th September 2023 Travelled: 90 kms from Ruoms to Le Cavalerie Visited: La Couvertoirade   Stayed: Le Cavalerie Aire CC, \u20ac12, N44.00880, E03.15230   Budget: 114 days @ \u20ac96 per day We left the aire in Ruoms with little fanfare this morning. It had rained heavily overnight and despite everything being a little sodden the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[72],"class_list":{"0":"post-34707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-french-villages","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34893,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34707\/revisions\/34893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}