Tuesday in Ceret ... We woke to mist covered mountain tops!
Here are some photos taken early in the morning creating the feeling that we were in the clouds high above the mountains and then later in the day photos were taken as close as possible of the same view once the sun had burned off the fog!
The misty photos were taken at about seven o'clock in the morning and the second ones about five hours later around noon.
I've posted the misty photo with the later one below, so hopefully you can see the difference!
Once it burned off ... Curious as the cat/ "Le chat" we decided to see where the stairs would take us to ...
Do you see the stairs climbing up ... we can see these from our apartment and have been curious to know where they lead!
Well maybe Monsieur Honey has been more curious ... as you can see it goes "up and up" and I still don't like heights!
Once we reached the top ... there was a narrow path that Msr. said we could follow further, we walked awhile along this path until I came to several spots where the cliffs were reinforced with wooden fences to prevent falls!
That's it I'm not going any further!
We could see our apartment ... can you see it?
The mountains with a sprinkling of snow ...
Monsieur Honey ... "Follow me, be more adventurous" ... easy for him to say!
The view of Ceret from above ...
My favorite "Postcard" from our hike!
Oh there I can see our apartment again ... It's the building with the blue Juliet balconies.
After our uphill hike and back down ... I wanted to go to the "Pont de Diable" ... The Devil's Bridge!
Here is Msr. Honey standing in the middle of the bridge (in the distance, can you see him?
Pont de Diable is a medieval stone arch bridge built between 1321 and 1341 that spans the Tech River.
It has an imposing single arch which spans approximately 45 meters, at it's apex it is 22.3 meters high.
The following is an excerpt from P-O Life (Life in the Pyrénées Orientales ...
"Many bridges built in medieval Europe were named "the Devil’s Bridge" as they were often amazing feats of architecture, built by hand with skills considered beyond human capabilities. Le Pont du Diable in Céret, a 14th-century bridge with a 46-metre span, at the time of its construction the world’s largest bridge arch, has its own story attached.
In the fourteenth century, the two banks of the River Tech were joined by a wooden bridge which was regularly washed away by the wind and rain."
The legend is that no one was able to build the bridge and in the end the devil built it!
The views from the bridge ...
I will have to see if we can get a full-on photo of "Pont de Diable" from one of the other bridges!
