Low Heights

Travel Guide

Nyons in the French Alps

River Aygues

Glorious setting for the opening of the novel but it’s hard to pick up a radio signal here apparently!
The rip roaring way the car goes around the cliff seems like a  hair raising experience. The river flows nearby:

“its coffee coloured water carried along dead branches which gathered in the rocky river bends like sets of pick up sticks”

Nyons

The village where they drive to and eat at a small restaurant on the street. The place is almost poetic in itself –

“Place du Docteur for example is enclosed by arcades “whose violet shadow suggested stolen kisses” More than that however is the food and the aromas of this place – Tomatoes, peppers, basil, fromage frais, piping-hot bread and let’s not forget the olive oil and saucisson!

This is  a time for pastis and inward thinking

Lake Geneva

Much of the book takes place in and around the glorious Lake Gneva

“It was nice on the terrace, There was a cool breeze from the lake”

Some of the characters have ice creams in the Bains des Paquis, a bathing place created by building out onto the lake. Golden bodies of young Adonises too it would seem.

Plenty of sensual scene setting here:

“Opposite them, imperturbable, the water jet kept up its insolent ejaculation”