We stopped to buy a picnic lunch in Uzès, a centre of Huguenot, and later Catholic, silk production in the barren countryside north of Nîmes.   This proved nearly impossible.   Was it because it was Monday ?  Or a bank holiday ?  Or just lunch-time ?  We only caught glimpses of the inner town, with its medieval bell tower attached to a more modern cathedral, the dusty streets, the adjacent bishop’s palace and ducal castle:-

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