We started the day with an AHmazing rainbow. And as beautiful as it was, what do rainbows signify? Yup rain. Tom & I decide not to dig out our rain jackets mostly because we are being minimal – not even carrying a day pack! Perhaps it’s a 24 years of marriage thing – we have a backpack and neither one of us wants the other to have to carry it, so we go without.
Today we walked about 11 miles in two segments. The first segment I’ll nickname “the rainy segment” where we walked from Villerouge-Termenès to Palaira. It’s here in Palaira we have lunch. Today we are on our own so we each prepared our lunches by going to the tiny grocery store the night before. One couple brought a duck pate, a few of us brought sausage / salami and regional cheese, lots of bread. We had sammiches of cheese, salami, tomato and lettuce with a side of grapes and plums.
We skip a hilly segment and start again at Tuchan where we walk 8k into Padern. This segment I call the “windy segment.” We walk in vineyards and then in terrain that resembled Yosemite. The wind is intense. We worry when we see one emergency vehicle after another scream out in the road below. There’s a fire nearby and the winds are pushing towards us. We feel like the winds are gusting at 50-70 mph at times. The ridge line before our final descent is particularly worrying as we cling the side and clutch our hats and belongings strongly. When we get to the town of Padern, we enthusiastically hop in the vans to this rather sleepy village of Cucugnan. We sleep here 2 nights. Tomorrow we might visit the twin castles of Peryrepertuse and Quéribus…but if the winds are so intense we might had a beach day in the “med.” We will see.
Pics coming …super slow WiFi
Pics coming …super slow WiFi
