>It's in the province Le Gard, the Cevennes mountains area.
>You can see some fascinating info about it via http://crueize.com/
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I've been in the area as a child. Yes, I remember it being very beautiful.
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>>Is there any interesting wildlife (apart from the lady :-)?
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>Yes, a lot actually. Most of it only comes out at night,
>but the insects alone are amazing there. I've seen beautiful
>grasshoppers the size of XLR plugs ;-)
>I can really recommend it for nature recordists, if you dare
>to explore, there are stunningly great swimming spots in the
>valleys too. Going there between may and september is best.
>End of July you can easily camp out without a tent, even.
>Summers in the South of France can be just perfect, in my view.
>Never too hot for me, never too cold. Very dry, and you'll
>always have rocks and mountains to block winds,
>never too much danger, a very prosperous culture,
>mostly farmers, and they're never in a hurry.
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>
This sounds really mouthwatering. Maybe next summer.....
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>My only problem with France is the language.
>I really don't like it very much, and so I've never been
>able to speak it the way my parents learned to.
>My French decoder is fine, but my encoder sucks..
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>
The image you use gets your point across funnily adequate. We all would
love to have universal codecs if not for humans then for birds, frogs
and crickets.
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>>My idea would just be that actually meeting likeminded people
>>would be very inspiring.
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>I think so too.
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I have no concrete idea how and where to organize such an event, but
I'll keep thinking about it.
Maybe someone else has an idea....
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