Travelling east to west across France is no easy matter in places. From the southern edge of the Cevennes several departements ate traversed in order to reach the hills of the Albigious. But it is not the numbers of administrative boundaries that interest but the physical features. Huge limestone plateaus (or Causses) straddle whole regions. There are several from Gaillac to Millau to Lodeve. Vast and featureless they are forbidding places. Exposed rock, scree and low thorny scrub, there would be little to orientate by on foot or horseback.
The French are not squeamish however and have driven huge roads across.and through the causses. The Foster bridge is of course well-known but.at times it is simply the sheer scale of things that is awesome.
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