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march '19: la source planey & le corbusier's notre-dame-du-haut.

a slight turquoise tint in the planey river. the pictures in this post are probably my absolute favourites of our france trip last year. we visited two special places on that day, one natural one and one man-made. we started the day off to check out a spring, a very special one, that was advertised to us as very magic on google maps. it said that apparently the water there would show off in a really vibrant turquoise colour, and reading that alone basically sealed the deal for me. the planey river is a small stream ( only about 7 kilometers long! ) that eventually ends up in the rhône river after it confluenced in the semouse river, which flows into the lanterne river, which then ends up in the saône river and that one is the final river that feeds the MUCH bigger rhône which confluences in the mediterranean sea - what a stream network, right? it's often so strange to me how tiny streams can influence much bigger ones which will end up in a huge pool in a totally differe...