For the youngsters hereabouts, the challenge seemed to be attempting to kill themselves. The bridge over the river – Devil’s Bridge, was over the years, built at various levels. They would jump from the bridge, into the river, from various heights. Children would use the bridge foundations as a starting point but older kids would jump from the metal stanchions into the river. So far so good, but even older kids (all males btw, late teens, early twenties), would jump from the road bridge into the river. That had to be 60’ at best – they must have been mad. 
Apparently, there ARE 3-4 fatalities every year from just this practice.
Higher up, to the west of where we are, there is a lake, which we also visited on another day. We didn’t stay as we couldn’t find a way to the water. There was a massive car park though, miles from anywhere but no sign of how to get anywhere from it. So, we left and went to the coast again.
This time we went along the strip of coats between Agde and Sete. There was mile after mile of lovely flat golden sand, with parking on the roadside, no more than a few yards from the sea. We thought that this was a marvellous beach. It had ‘proper’ sandcastle-building sand, was a safe depth for quite a way out and its only drawback was its distance from St. Jean de Fos! Oh, and, the traffic. Well, we were ok, as we knew the back roads, so we only had to circumnavigate Agde, and we were away. Others however, queued and queued. It was windy however – I guess that this is an aspect of the South of France. We had brought a good beach umbrella with us from Costco (Leeds) – and it was well worth the car-space. It screws into the sand, which gave it extra leverage – others just upped and blew away. Ours did not.
The day before we left, to move on to Saint Tropez, we visited the Grotte de Clamouse. This was an experience worth having. I’m sure that I would have enjoyed it even more if we hadn’t needed to avoid and step over all of the budding Steven Spielberg’s with their cameras and camcorders AND sheer ignorance of everyone else’s enjoyment of the caves. The sights inside were spectacular and colourful and the organised tour is well designed – but they really should limit the camera opportunities.
Image from https://www.minube.net/place/the-devils-bridge-pont-du-diable–a359681 with thanks.
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