The Pont du Gard (roman aqueduct) is 10mins drive away. You can go for walks up the Gardon gorge, paddle and hire kayaks. The town of Uzes (20mins by car) in its own Duchy, castle and leaning tower has a great Saturday market in the town centre. The Ceze valley has some lovely villages (30 mins by car). Nimes (roman ampitheatre, temple and tower), Avignon (city walls, famous bridge and Palais des Papes) and Arles (van Gogh connection and roman ampitheatre) are all reachable in 30mins. Within an hour you can get to the Mediterranean (including the Camargue and walled Aigues Mortes - crusades connection), the spectacular Ardeche gorge, the Cevennes (with a steam train) and the Vauclause mountains, les Baux de Provence and Aix en Provence.