There is light at the end of the valley!
Even leaving out the aberrancy of the Met Office it was still forcast as a bad day. We started in rain at 0900 and rain continued till about 12.15. It was also steeply up out of town past the multi coloured arrows on the familiar 103.
The route is well signposted with yellow signs giving routes as either T or E,T turns out to mean tourist and easy,E turns out to stand for e by eck this a tad steep and we go up and down all day on E.
We are on the south facing side of the valley with a route between very steep vineyards and small hamlets and woods.
The well named Pissin Dessous village has a fine old wine press.
After a couple of hours we stagger,dripping into the Funicular Cafe in St Vincent for cappucini, the church had excellent frescoes,allegedly,we never found the light switch. But opposite a door to the Thermes has rather fine sea serpents on the door.
A little while later and the skies began to clear,looking up the valley it was snow an winter whilst down the valley it was blue skies and summer. We are directed by the signs along the way to very old ?Roman ? Earlier cart ruts in solid rock apparently this is a very ancient route.
Birds began to sing and swallow-tail and orange tip butterflies appeared.
Eventually we descended to the valley floor and marched into town.
Tonight’s lodging in Maison Cassius turns out to be close to a bar where we get given grissini and cheese with our beer,oh the joys of a pilgrim life.
It’s not all good of course, I seem to have selected fizzy red wine from the supermarket again!