The first interesting city where we are going is Narbonne; like other villages around, people live from the wine sector.
Just in the heart of the city is located the old cathedral of Sant-Just, with a sophisticated acoustic system to communicate with other parts of the building till 100 meters of distance.
This method was used by the soldiers when they arrest prisoners in the cathedral, to have them under control.
Walking and hitchhiking we cover the way to Sète, a small port city with important international connections. But we had to arrive until Agde, separate from Sète by 15km of beach, and where is waiting our HC host, Mary, who treat us like her own children.
Already in Montpellier, we were lucky of accommodate in the flat on Antoine, with 2 Americans and a Pakistani guy. We walked around watching the great monuments and the young atmosphere for the universities.
Montpellier is very big, so we walked a lot out of the city to hitchhike to Nîmes; only 20 kilometers far from Nîmes, the second car which pick us up convert to the feat of the month. There was a hippie couple, and the driver was drinking beer all the time; the problem was the language because they spoke Russian and some French, he said that he wanted to show us something nice out of Nîmes, (this is what we understood) But the time was running and the distance more and more far, until 40km out of the city; then we start to doubt if they want to rob us or something…
Finally he stops in a small town where he met a friend, the friend came to the car and they started to speak in Russian, the Russian was looking at us all the time, and then he occupied the place of the driver and the driver came behind with us; at this time we were thinking the worst way…but finally nothing happened, they only wanted to spend some time together; the main problem was the language and they didn’t say nothing, where we go…what we are doing… At the end they brought us back to Nîmes.
This city is one of the most that we have liked; there are a lot of ancient roman architecture, like the amphitheater, the square house and the gardens full of statues and water canals.
We went out of our way to visit Avignon, a surrounded town by a big roman wall; inside there is the palace of the Popes.
To the south following the Rhone River, in the city of Arles, we continue watching roman relics like the old theater and the amphitheater, everything lively by the big festival of the city, where the show passion for the bull, doing different plays with them.
There are cities like Arles, where is impossible for us to go out by walk, because all is surrounded by highways; so we had to cover all the way to Marseille with three cars, a city of chaos where we were obliged to go out by train, because this night we had a meeting with Luciana of HC, in Toulon, where we spent a nice party night with she and her friends.
On the way to Cannes we had a small problem, we got stuck in the highway, and we had to walk by it for two kilometers to the toll, behind of the handrail of course…
We went to Frank house a member of HC, who host another girl from Galicia, Belén. With them we walked around the city and we visited the famous place where the famous Cannes Festival is celebrated.
Belén accompanies us by hitchhike to Nice, a nice, care and rich city; more like Italian style with narrow and colorful streets it its old town. In the port we saw many luxurious yachts and big houses around.
We spent the first night in the beach, then we enjoy with the company of Alice of HC and her songs with the accordion.
On the next days we will do some changes that we will let you know. Here there is a French map with our way, which already start to change of the original way.
