Nîmes Walkabout

Nîmes is one of those cities that we keep driving past on the auto-route and have never actually stopped to have a look.  In fact, the huge residential tower blocks on the out-skirts are enough to put anyone off!  But it’s only a couple of hours drive from my...

A reflection in Modern Architecture

The Contemporary Art Museum in Nîmes faces across an open square towards the only fully preserved Roman temple in the world. Unfortuneately, half of it was under scaffolding when I visited Nîmes last week, so I had to carefully position the reflection to mask those...