A committee in Wales last week (Nov 27th) published detailed proposals for addressing traffic congestion as an alternative to building a £1.6bn 14 mile long motorway bypass. It was a highly usual initiative. Normally big road schemes are either given the go-ahead or scrapped, either forever or to be revived at some later date. Other… Continue reading
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France opens up the Causses and Cévennes – the land the sheep made
We watch Country File and Springwatch and many an informative documentary on landscape and rural life. So it shouldn’t be hard for us to open up to, and understand, a not so well-known area of France. One that is green and pure and wide and spacious, where the mood music is the ancient sound of… Continue reading →