https://francerevisited.com/2020/09/auvergne-plenitude-aubrac-plateau/ Discover Travel Explore Encounter France and Paris Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:22:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://francerevisited.com/2020/09/auvergne-plenitude-aubrac-plateau/#comment-39506 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:22:40 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=14987#comment-39506 How amusing! We just returned from a week on the Aubrac plateau as part of a 3 week tour of the center of France. We began in St Leonard de Noblat after reading your other article and as a side trip to Limoges to see the famous train station that someone once suggested we visit and the enamels in the municipal museum. And now we discover this article about the Aubrac. It doesn’t sound as if another 12 years going by has changed much there. St Urcize was pretty quiet, but Nasbials had many Compostelle pilgrims. The locals said there were more visitors than usual this summer due to people seeking refuge from crowds in this least populated part of France. We had hoped to go fishing, but several years of drought has made everything dry and the Bès more of a creek than river. The cows with their “fauve” coats are still there, lovely in the evening light. We stayed in a village stable house with the traditional Cantou fireplace, well and stone sink, a ferradou for shoeing draft animals was just outside. We hope to go back to see the green grass and wildflowers one spring and ride our bikes over those rolling hills again.

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