We were crazy last night. We were at Aix-en-Provence at 6:00 pm and Aix is about 1,5 hour away from Montpellier, which is where I need to return my Peugout 407 (the car I rented from Sixt). And I decided to go and see Viaduc de Millau, connecting between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers. It’s part of the 340km highway of A75. This viaduc is an architecture gems because it’s the highest BRIDGE ever built on the world (see the link, because of the difference in measurement) with 270 m tall and over the 2.46 km long, the architect Sir Norman Foster ingenously uses ONLY 7 piers!
We drove there and it was on the TOP of the mountain in the Langudoc Region and the 2-lane highway was pitch dark and it was quite scary drive up to the mountain with 800m attitude! After about 1.5 hours, we were finally on the TOP! It was magifnicient! The Viaduc is not too well lit, but you can see how SMALL the lights are in the village below! Very windy and the weather changes quite rapidly as well at the region that high!
It was too dark to go to the visitor’s centre. We just stopped at the rest area and took a picture of the toll booth. Took a video of driving along the Viaduc, and will post on YouTube soon.
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