Coffee at La Tulipe.

Pack a few overnight things.

Drive to Lurs. Stopping at the town of Apt for a Perrier + Pee.

Lurs is a medieval village on the top of a hill with views that extend as far as the eye can see over the Luberon Valley on one side, and the Alps over the other side.

Classic french lunch at our friends’ home, of vegetable soup with bread and cheese, a coffee & chocolate.

Bergamote Concept Store, Lurs - shopping!

Walk the mountain path to the ridge to see the views that go forever, and where I thought we might be lost in the forest forever! (obviously though, we are fine).

Our friends drove us to dinner at a town further north at the base of the Alps called Sisteron. We walked through the old town which has a fortress on the mountain built by Napoleon to ward off invaders. It is dark. It is cold. One can feel the snow from the mountain caps in the air. It is majestically beautiful.

Slept in bunk beds in a sweet little Gites D’etape (hostel for pilgrims). Cold, damp, dark, but clean and spacious. We are on an adventure.