We travelled with Ryanair from Stansted to Rodez, a small (but perfectly formed) local airport that otherwise only features flights to/from Paris. We booked return tickets early at £45 pp + taxes but subsequently prices went down to 79p! Managed to have our (vital, lunchtime) corkscrew confiscated from a backpack at Stansted security search.Rodez is a snug town of some 23,000. The young pre-booked taxi lady is waiting to take us in the bright sunshine the 60k to Nasbinals. The village is very much quieter this year - the Transhumance is not until next weekend. Mine host at Hotel de la Route d'Argent is obviously girding himself up for that, possibly in trauma and without too much to say, even to his few regulars propping up the bar. We booked in and strolled in the sunshine to visit the beautifully restored Romanesque granite church. Interesting double-banked gallery at the rear.
A number of houses seem to be in course of restoration as holiday homes.For supper we had our old friend the Aligot served with the roast lamb and followed by further cheese with a nice bottle of Fitou.
D.R. RIP
