GR10 Day33

Today was a relatively short day.  This means you tend to get up late, start walking late, and the temperature has risen.  We had breakfast at 8am, and started up the path to the first village.  We were soon extremely hot and sweaty.  Luckily, we didn’t have much more climbing after that as the route took us along a shaded forest track, paralleling the contours.  We reached a closed refuge and sat in its veranda and had snacks for lunch.  The track continues to the col, and then we started dropping down, again on old farm tracks leading through old terraces.  We reached the first village and went down the old path to the next village.  Another path led on down through more terraces to the village of Siguer.  All these paths and terracing must have been a huge amount of work with no mechanical equipment.  The hotel in Siguer was a big surprise; two or three old buildings had been knocked together and renovated to create a quirky boutique hotel, which had featured in various magazines.  For once, our bedroom was not on the second floor, it was on the third!  The owner seized Christine’s bag to carry it up to our room, which featured a bath. 

We sat out on the terrace for a drink before a very good dinner.