This is not a tour where you spend hours on a bus ( small van) as you visit several small towns as well as Pont de Gard. We drove out into the countryside and stopped at our first town where we chose to have a quick look and a coffee whereas the other couple chose to spend the time looking around. While on the bus you are given information about where you are going, the countryside, some history etc, so it is never boring. Also there is not so much information that you feel overwhelmed. There is a longer lunch stop where you can choose how much time you spend eating versus walking around. Later you have a guided walk through another small town and visit another without the guide. At the Pont de Gard, sensibility left until late as the crowds have eased you walk up with the guide and then have free time. So this is a tour that takes you to many places that are difficult to access without a vehicle and allows you to choose how much time you spend walking around or if walking is a problem you can relax with coffee etc after a short walk. From all the small group tours we have done I would say that this tour does not have long periods of time in the van as the distances covered aren’t huge and the route is well planned to minimise travel time and avoid crowded times as much as possible.