After a quiet morning we decided to go for another walk from the campsite, this time to the South, down a valley in the direction of Lablachere. Rather than following the official route that stayed high above the valley, we turned off the main track and followed another small track down the side of the valley to the river at the bottom. After crossing the river, an easy task because the river was very low, we walked up the valley to a ruined 'abbey'. This must have been little more than a hermitage given that there were very few remains and certainly no sign of large buildings. We then walked on paths up the valley to Panzolles and back down the road to Le Ch'Ti Franoi.
We had arranged to go out for a meal with Steve and Audrey on our last evening with them and we went to a a hotel / pizzeria / restaurant in nearby Joyeuse. The food was very good indeed and the generous portions meant that we were well satisfied by the end. The cheese course was very good, including two very local cheeses, one of which, a blue cheese called Coucouron, everyone thought was excellent and I am sure that it will appear regularly on Steve and Audrey's shopping lists in the future. The evening finished with more chatting over coffee back at the site.
Photos: Parasitic growth on an oak leaf.
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