May 26, 2019
Roussillon
The Ochre Trail
We decided we would spend at least two nights in Roussillon and last night when we were walking up the hill from our hotel to the restaurant for dinner our legs were thanking us. What a great choice we made for a rest day. Roussillon is another of les plus beaux villages de France and our hotel is fantastic as well. The breakfast was deemed a seven jammer by Keith, which is the best we have done in France. He feels they are typically a two to three jammer.
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We started the day with the Ochre Walk. The cliffs reminded us of Sedona. The colours are very similar. The walk was gorgeous and we had beautiful weather for it. I am still stuck in a long sleeve shirt because my poor arms continue to recover from their sunburn, and I was cooking. The interpretive signs were in English as well as French and we really enjoyed the track.
After our explore of the ochre trail we headed into town for a really good look. It is an intriguing place with all the old alleys and arches and beauty we love. We poked our noses into shops, checked out the belvedere and just really enjoyed it. There were so many places to buy things we would have loved to bring home (mostly food) and so little room in the panniers. Sigh.
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Okay, this is turning into a photo dump. We decided we were hungry and found another sunny terrace where we shared a lasagne. Absolutely delicious. There was a combined birthday and anniversary celebration at the next table. They had two huge cakes complete with candles. There were only four people. Yup, they ate it all. We were hoping they would share. It seemed to us they had enough for the whole terrace!
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Then we walked down the hill a bit to the Ochre museum. We really enjoyed it and learned a great deal. It was a fascinating place. A whole industry that has been replaced by synthetic colours for paints.
Then it was back up the hill to Roussillon and our wonderful hotel. Look what was starting to happen in the late afternoon.
We sat on the terrace overlooking the pool, drank an entire bottle of wine and ate a picnic supper. Keith was dressed and ready to leap into the pool as it was warm, despite the cloudburst, but in the end he didn’t. He did some planning instead. I just drank wine, wrote the journal and relaxed. So here is a surprise to us, we are so happy where we are we are staying put and doing a day ride tomorrow. Bonnieux, Lacoste, Ménerbes and Gault we are looking forward to you! We are loving the Luberon.
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