La Belle France.

Our first stop in France : Chateau de Candie, originally a Templar castle.

See the princess in the tower !

Rescued ! ... with decorative Trompe d'Oeuil.

En-route to the South.

At Pont du Gard we admired the Roman aqueduct constructed in the C1st AD to carry water from the Fontaines d'Eures 50km to Nimes.

Also, this aged olive tree believed to be 1108 years old.

In Nimes we saw La Maison-Carrée built in 4BC; the only complete temple remaining from Roman times...

and the Amphitheatre built in about 50AD in which up to 25,000 spectators could enjoy fights to the death.

Indeed, even so today.

Willy's school stands grandly nearby.