Millau Viaduct

Me and my family went on a road trip to the Millau bridge. It took almost 3 hours up and 3 back.  It felt like a very long trip, more like 5 hours than 3!

Anyway, more about the bridge.  Did you know that the Millau bridge is 343m tall and 2,460m long?

The bridge is located in the village of Millau in the south of central France, over the Tarn River.  The bridge was constructed to help with the large amount of traffic that travelled through the village as this is the main highway between the South of France and Paris.  The old road is very steep and slow and in the summer time traffic used to back up for ages.  Now they just go over the bridge straight over the town.

Construction on the bridge began in 2001, 4 days after I was born and was completed 3 years later, to the day!  The company that built the bridge is the same company that built the Eiffel Tower.  In the middle the bridge is almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

We drove over the bridge - I was a bit scared being up so high especially after seeing it from the bottom and knowing how high it was.

There were lots of people parachuting and gliding off the  mountain above Millau, they looked really good as they came down in their colourful parachutes from the top of the mountain.