Framedlight

As we were camped in a fairly scenic spot I got up early and walked to the bridge across the river Bourne. The sky had remained clear overnight and although it was not a dramatic sunrise, the small fluffy clouds that were starting to accumulate were a pretty pink. As I watched the colour drain, the clouds rolled in big time and I knew we were in for another overcast day. We drove out of Chorance and back down the valley to Pont-en-Royans, where we stopped in a lay-by to take a picture of the river as it leaves the town. I had tried to do this on an earlier day but you have to stand in the road to take it which makes life difficult! Here I was lucky that there was little traffic. The Vercors was a stronghold of the French resistance movement during the second world war. In 1944 there were 400 active people working here and after D Day that rose to 4,000 volunteers. A plan was drawn up to form an allied bridgehead in the Vercors, aided by the air force and on 3rd J...