visiting lac du crès France has more than twice as many natural and man-made lakes as its northern neighbor Germany. (To be fair, I should also report that Italy dwarfs France with over a thousand lakes.) But numbers don’t really matter. I can visit only one lake at a time visiting lac du crès. Fortunately, one French lake is adjacent to my home in Castelnau-le-Lez. The man-made lake is in the nearby town of Le Crès, a small commune of about nine thousand residents. My new French friends, still thoughtfully helping me adjust to my new life, took me to