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| Abbaye de Gallone a St Guilhem-le-Desert |
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| Meown♥️ |
That was the day I was waiting for a year. Do the orange footpath we could not connect last year. I was ready to do the whole walks. But, we looked at a map, and worked out we were close, very close to connect and finish the orange footpath. We asked some locals and even at the tourist information about the footpath, no one knew what we meant. Funny enough, when we walked up to the ruined chateau, the orange footpath disappeared and pink footpath appeared. Who marked them?
We thought local walking group people marked those markings so that they had variety of footpaths. Official ones are red and yellow footpath. Orange or pink markings, they are both marked along yellow footpath anyway.
We kind of very relaxed about this walks to start off with, we only had a bottle of water with us, as you can imagine, we weren't going to do long walks. Anyway, started walking towards the roman bridge and followed the footpath. It came out to the service road. Then we saw the telecoms tower in front of us. Marcus asked if I wanted to see the goats, so we carried on the service road.... I took the lead, that was a mistake. We supposed to take the left turn to see goats towards Le Mont. I took the right turn didn't I, at the open service junction.
So, I asked Marcus when we were walking about nearly an hour in,
"I took the wrong turn didn't I?"
Why he didn't tell me earlier, I don't know. Anyway, we carried on walking, might as well do the whole walks again.
That day, we walked, walked, walked and walked.
We ended up walking the big circular walks, walks we did went through 2-3 different footpaths. It was fun. Saw orange footpath, and realised last time and this time, we did bigger circular walks than orange one. We finally connected the junction we lost! Hooooray.
Were there some wild boars? Earth was digged up and also, lots of big holes were digged up by machinery. Were they looking for truffles?
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| walked all the way! |
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| Yey, the telecoms tower |
When we were top of the mountain we saw the telecoms tower right in front of us. Decided to have a rest there looking the landscapes. We saw few walkers there, but not many.
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| Having a rest |
Later we told David (our landlord) we walked to the tower and back, he didn't really believe us.
When we came out to the service road again, carried on walking to the footpath we came out from and walked down to the village.
We did about 37km in 8.5 hours or so... We walked quick too, knew the footpath. And we only had small bumbags....
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| Going down now... |
Dinner that night tasted even more delicious.
And slept really well.
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