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Review : France

Wolves, bison and silence
Let's imagine that you're fed up with crowds, noise and turmoil, with fools at work and braying airheads on TV. In short, with the cacophony of modern life.
You need an antidote. I have one. I was there last week. For a couple of days, I drove up and down mountains and across plateaux on roads all but deserted except at milking time. I walked through forests and meadows, by mountain streams and over rocky ridges.
This was Lozere, where France runs to rhythms apparently unchanged since the world was much younger. It is a place to fill the eyes, fill the lungs and rinse what's left of the spirit. And it's really not that far.
At the southern end of the Massif Central mountains, this is the country's loftiest county.
Lozere is mostly over 2,000ft. It's cold in winter, hot in summer and tough all the time - which explains why it is also France's least populated region.
Which means that, if you need neon nightlife, you hip-hop elsewhere. But it also means that you get the vast landscape largely to yourself.
Such was the case when I set out from Grandrieu, a doughty stone settlement overlain with smells of hay and farm animals.
Within moments, I was on springy pastureland, ankle-deep in buttercups and narcissi. It was glorious, king-of-the-world stuff. I would have been walking still - literally; I got quite lost - if I hadn't bumped into the only other bloke within a zillion square miles.
He was a farmer with a big tractor, doing something technical with cattle. 'Where am I?' I asked. 'Here,' he replied. After that, we got along famously. Some of his sentences stretched to three words.
Hours later, I returned to Grandrieu to tumble into a bar where old chaps with weather-stained faces stared but opened up easily once shyness evaporated.
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