We set off from the room where we stayed overnight at the Franciscan monastery, and looked around the town.
We stopped off for chocolate croissants at the local cafe, and checked out the local bus station, which didn't have any information.
After looking at the church (tripping over it in Sue's case) we headed up the hill and along the waterways to the next town, Saint Vincent,
where we stopped for a coffee and snack.
The afternoon was hot again (28deg) but there was a cool breeze and fountains to keep our water supplies up.
The terrain was still up and down along the steep sides of the valley, past ruined castles and old villages,
with stretches along the rû aqueducts. After the spa village of Saint-Vincent, we enter a rural area where the found wine terraces,
distributed in small plots cultivated with the system of pergolas, supported by traditional conical columns.
The villages were getting larger as we moved down the valley, and cattle farms started to appear.
The climbs and descents through the old mule-roads that make their way between the terraces are so exhausting,
A highlight, however, was seeing a beekeeper taking honeycombs out of the hive.
Heading down to look for a bus stop, we were impressed by the Montjovet fortress (also called Castello die St.Germain),
constructed on a rock in the 11th century, and enhanced in 1534.
