11 August, 2010

On the road, from Toulouse to Perpignan


The highway arrives in Toulouse at the top of a hill. The city looks indstrial and busy. Many symbols of its activity dedicated to aviation and space can be seen of both sides of the road inside the urban area.

After the city, the highway is called "Autoroute des deux mers". This name is appropriate because the road is a link between two different eco-systems. At a precise point untitled "Water share line", the landscape changes completely from oceanic to mediterranean appearance. The fields look dry and rocky. That becomes especially true after Carcassonne, a medieval city, vivid testimony of the middle age.

Then the mediterranean sea is in view. The highway leaves Narbonne on the North and turns main South toward Perpignan the last french town before the spanish frontier. Located at the bottom of the Pyrénées, the city is in a flat zone where vegetables are grown. This aspect ends abruptedly when the highway climbs the mountain...

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