We visited this site in October 2010. It was easy to find the site and there was lots of parking. We were there on a lovely sunny day and it was thrilling to walk among these ancient ruins. Glanum is high up above St Remy, with lovely views. St Remy is a very nice town with excellent shopping :) (I got some of those French-style quilts which are now made in India or China but are still very good quality.)

Highly recommended - beautiful, detailed mosaics. This Roman Villa was discovered under a farm field and many parts of the mosaics were damaged, but they saved what they could and reconstructed the walls of the villa so you see the layout of the rooms. They put a building around the villa to protect it.

We arrived in the late afternoon in time for the last tour and since we were the only ones there, the guide gave us the tour in English.

The guide takes you into the big building and you walk around on a platform above the mosaics. Our guide gave us good information about the villa and how it was used and about the style of mosaics.

There is a small museum in the main building, but it is not worth visiting just to see that - you will want to see the mosaics.

Check the hours before you visit. When we were there it was only open in the afternoon, with tours on the hour. We got a little lost going there but only because we read the signs wrong and turned too early (onto an endless narrow lane).

We visited this dolmen in 2010 and missed it driving south from Gennes. We realized we had gone too far, so turned around, and it was very visible coming from the south. It is just on the edge of the town. It is a huge dolmen in a field. You park at the edge of the field. We were the only people there. Well worth a visit if you are in this area.

I highly recommend visiting this cave if you are in the area (we visited in September 2011). The cave drawings are amazing, the cave itself is interesting and this area in the foothills of the Pyrenees is beautiful. Visiting Niaux was the highlight of our trip to southern France and was the first time I have seen prehistoric cave art.

We booked the day before by phone for the English tour. The tour was full (20 people). Our guide was very good and gave us great information about the cave art. The tour took 1 1/2 hours. The drawings are located in the "Salon Noir" about 800 meters from the cave entrance. It took 30 minutes to walk in, we spent 30 minutes looking at all the drawings, then 30 minutes to walk back out.

In the cave there are no lights (they supply flashlights), no walkways (the cave floor has a thin layer of concrete so it is easy to walk on but it is a bit damp) and railings only in a few places. The cave is large, with a very high "ceiling" so you don't feel closed in. There is only one short narrow passage that you go through. There is a short uphill walk at the end, but overall it is not a difficult walk.

It is cool in the cave but not cold. Wear a sweater or jacket and good walking shoes.

Note, when we were there the restrooms were out of service (nearby woods are available).

The cave is located up a hillside from the town of Niaux and the drive from the town is on a narrow (but paved) mountain road. There is lots of parking at the cave entrance. The way to the cave is well signed.

It was a 1 1/2 hr drive from Carcassonne (where we were staying). If you drive this route, stop in Mirepoix on the way. This town has a beautiful medieval center.

We visited the Prehistory Park after our tour of the Niaux cave. The museum has displays that explain how the drawings were done and what life was like in that era, but I found it boring especially after the experience of seeing the drawings at Niaux (I would rather read a book about it).

They also have a replica of some of the Niaux caves, including the Salon Noir that you see on the tour, showing the drawings as they would have looked originally. But, again, after the incredible experience of Niaux, I was not so thrilled with this.

We visited this museum after seeing the Seviac Roman Villa. The museum is on the main square of Montreal - two rooms in the back of the Tourist Office. The museum has several very good mosaics and display cabinets with coins, parts of looms, door hardware, stone carvings and other things found at the villa. We had an excellent lunch at Brasserie L'escale across the square.

We visited Seviac in September 2011 when we spent a week in Gascony, near Condom. The Roman villa is just outside Montreal. When we were there a small group of people were part of a tour in French, but they gave us a book in English and we wandered around on our own. The setting is beautiful and the mosaics are some of the best I have seen. I really enjoyed our visit.

Afterward we went into Montreal (a beautiful town) to see the small Seviac Museum and then had a very good lunch (at L'escale on the main square).

We visited this dolmen in July 2010. Once we got to Bagneux, a suburb of Saumur, we followed signs to the dolmen. The dolmen is located on a side street. We parked on the street and rang the bell at the closed gate. The owner came out, collected the entrance fee, and let us into the back yard of the cafe. I think the cafe was closed when we visited - otherwise, you could see the dolmen from the cafe. This dolmen is HUGE and worth visiting for that alone, but its location makes it even more interesting. The city has grown around the dolmen, so it is tucked into a walled garden, surrounded by other buildings.

We visited this site recently. The displays are set up very well, with interesting commentary on the audio tour and good visual aids. In one part where you walk through remains of a building, screens show a video of what the buildings looked like originally. They project images of people walking around. It brings it all alive.

Save your entrance ticket because you get a free glass of spring water in the Pump Room, which gives you a chance to look at the elegant Pump Room, built in the late 1700s, and taste the (nasty) spring water. There are two viewing areas near the Pump Room that look into the source of the hot springs (you can also see this from the Roman Baths).

We walked to Belas Knap following the Cotswold Way National Trail from Winchcombe, but you can drive close to it and then walk a short trail. Here is a video showing the site: BBC - Mark Horton visits Belas Knap in Gloucestershire.

We stayed near Condom for a week in September 2011 and sought out three of these Roman towers near Biran, in the River Baise valley. The Michelin map for the Midi-Pyrenees #525 has these three towers marked.

One tower is on a small road that goes from the N124 west of Auch north to St Lary on the D930. This road is signed for the town of Larroque with a sign for the Roman tower ("Pile gallo-romaine"). This tower is in a field at the top of the hill. Turn right on the first lane you come to and you will see the tower. You can walk right up to it. Well worth seeking it out.

We also found the Biran Roman Tower. It is off the D939 just south of Biran (if coming from the north, don't take the first road to Biran, but take the next left, go over the river and you will see the tower in the middle of a field.

The third tower is hard to find and you cannot get close to it. It is on a hillside in the woods near St Lary (on the D930, south of Valence sur Baise). I would skip this one. (If you want to see it, take the lane west from the D930 in St Lary, go over the river, turn right on a lane along the river. When you come to a few modern cottages on the left, look up past the cottages, past farm fields, to the woods and you will see it peaking out of the trees.)

On the day we were finding these towers we had a lovely lunch at Le Pas Pareil on the main street in Vic Fezensac.

Having seen this museum, I don't feel the need to ever search out Roman coins again. It was amazing to see the whole treasure displayed in one place - 28,003 coins plus jewelry - and near where it was discovered. The treasure in a vault in the basement. Everything is displayed beautifully - we spent a long time looking at the different coins (displayed behind glass).

Now that I think about it, are all the coins on display? The room was large, but I don't know if all the coins were there. I should have counted.

The town of Eauze is interesting with many beautiful old buildings. There are many restaurants, cafes and shops. We spent a week in this area in a farmhouse near Condom. There are other good archaeological sites nearby (Seviac, Biran Roman Tower, the museum in Lectoure).

I love hunting out small archaeological sites like this one. We took several wrong turns but finally found the road and were rewarded with being the only people there (until another car arrived 10 mins later). You get a good view of the bridge from the river bank and you can walk out on a bit of the bridge. It is very beautiful and worth a stop if you are in the area. It is not far from the Loupian Villa (wonderful Roman mosaics).

Silbury Hill is one of my favorite archaeological sites in England. You can drive to it, but my favorite way to see it is to park in Avebury, walk along the West Kennett Avenue (double row of stones), turn right at the end (it is signed), then walk up a hill. From this hill you look down on Silbury Hill and it is magnificent. Continue down the hill towards Silbury Hill, then right on the path along the river. This takes you back to Avebury and gives you more views of Silbury Hill along the way. This is an easy 1 hour (at most) walk.

For lunch there is a good National Trust restaurant (vegetarian!!) in Avebury.