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| Our lounge |
After our big day of travelling we thought we'd hang around St. Saturnin d'Apt. Rather bravely we thought we would walk UP to the village for breakfast.
Still nicely hot here (around 27C) and the terrain was definitely up!
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| Kitchen/dining |
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| Part of our journey to St Saturnin |
After feeling quite pleased to get there (actually it wasn't that far) we stopped at cafe and had the ubiquitous Continental breakfast, croissants, jam, fruit juice and coffee. Refreshingly that was all they had and they just brought it out.
We have to say that everyone has been wonderful with service and very friendly even with our language difficulties.
St Saturnin has typically narrow streets, cream ochre stones and very old buildings. It probably falls within the the definition of a perched village, if not there is still a lot of variation in heights. It also is (compared with Paris) quite clean although not everyone obeys the signs.
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| Breakfast |
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| No translation needed |
After breakfast we explored the streets.
Next we braved climbing up to the 11th century portal and church. That's right - it's a thousand years old!
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| 11th Century Portal + lavender |
With all the ancienty ruins there are always intriguing sights hidden away. You just have to look out for them. For example, before we got to the church we looked behind some bars to find a forgotten crypt.
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| Ta da! |
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| Bars in wall |
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| Lady within |
We couldn't enter the church, but the exterior was worth seeing.
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| Jay-suss! |
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| ye olde church |
Bells ring out the time here and in many of the villages. However we suspect that the bell-ringers are either forgetful or drunk. Or have a tradition we don't know about. Because only half the time do the number of strikes ring true!
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| Drunken bell ringer |
We also walked down to the dam, which had some large fish in it and a snake. Allan's got this thing about snakes in the grass in France.
Afterwards we walked back to the local shops and picked up supplies for lunch and tea and headed back. Our calves certainly felt it the next day!
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