French driving in the summer in the south of France involves many cars. Add in varied toll gate adventures and you need to have your no phasement travel face in a calm place. Bumper to bumper is common even on freeways but it will pass. The choice of destinations is endless and varied. Today it was the Pont Diable mainly because we could cool off. It doesn't matter how remote or hilly or dry, those ancient religious types will build a church anywhere in Europe. St Guilhem is one of them.
Seems St Guilhem was having trouble getting the bridge built because during the night the devil was knocking down all the work that had been done during the day. He went down to the bridge one night and confronted the devil. He said why don't you just help us make the strongest bridge ever. The devil said yes but wanted the soul of the first across the bridge when completed. St Guilhem agreed so the Devil got to build the best bridge but St Guilhem sent a dog across first. Try as he could the devil couldn't break his own bridge and ended up in the water.
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