Just as in Australia, the French farmers are suffering this year. There has hardly been any rain during the past three months and the rivers are low everywhere we have been. Some of the crops are very patchy and we have heard tales of farmers having to sell animals to pay for the feed.
Farming here is also very different from what I have seen in Australia. It's on a much smaller scale and you often see a man and his wife with a few dogs herding the cows down the lanes to their farm for milking. The other day we saw a herd of goats that had broken free from their paddock roaming in the municipal gardens eating the flowers and other plants. They are pretty good at jumping up onto walls too. As some of them had bells around there necks they should not have been too hard to find.
Despite the rivers being low, you can always see fish at every place you stop to look. They tend to have a restricted area around the village centre but not elsewhere. I think this is so that they are also a tourist attraction as well as sport. In the centre of Florac we saw trout that were around 40 to 50cm long and must have weighed a few kilos. They had built some attractive walled dams so that there were deep pools in sections along the river, which was flowing freely.
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