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Do take the time to drive down to the village of Millau if you can, to sit down with a beer looking up at the sheer scale of the engineering in the bridge is well worth it.
Unfortunately I get vertigo and this didn’t help when crossing the bridge an hour so later, arms locked, head down in a state of terror!
Unfortunately I get vertigo and this didn’t help when crossing the bridge an hour so later, arms locked, head down in a state of terror!
Depends when you are going but if the weather is ok taking your car up Mont Ventoux is excitng and gets the adrenaline going. I drove the Diablo up Mont Ventoux in 2007 when I visited Milau on a Furball. The Milau Bridge was ok but too foggy up there to see much but Mont Ventoux was mad even better than Stelvio.
My advice would be to approach the bridge from the south, if at all possible. You don't actually see the bridge until the last moment as you are driving along a road cut between rock and then as you round a corner, the whole valley and bridge is laid before you and you drop down onto it. Quite spectacular, and far better than from the north approach which is relatively flat.
Oh and do it in a convertible, and then turn round and do it again, like we did.
Oh and do it in a convertible, and then turn round and do it again, like we did.
happy days !
drive the nearby gorges du tarn and stay here:
http://www.hotel-delamuse.fr/english/homepage.html
cheers,
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