Gordes

Next stop? I have no idea, except that it was a village called Gordes, somewhere west of Les Baux. I was feeling the stress of the climb mixed with the illness and after taking more pills and sniffing more nose stuff I was once again happily snoring in the back of the car – until I was woken up to look at a village built stunningly into the side of a huge hill. Approaching the village, you see tightly-packed rows of sand-colored buildings, drenched in sunlight, clinging to a hillside so steep that the roof of each building is even with the ground floor of the building behind it. The sight is even more amazing when you remember that much of it was built hundreds of years ago.Even in villages that lack such a spectacular setting, the sun-soaked, sand-colored limestone buildings of the region are truly a wonder.