The local gendarme would have been wild if we hadn’t move Max out of the way of the Tour de France stage 19 finish. We were pleased we had arrived early so we could get a parking space. Our appartment over looks the finish although we will be down on the road shouting.

After stocking up the cupboards, doing some washing and eating too much lunch we went for a wee walk. Only mistake was eating too much lunch!! Walking at over 2000m and up steep little paths in this heat took us a bit longer than normal but what a fantastic walk. Inevitably we had plenty of stops mainly to admire the numerous wild flowers, wolf statues ( which Dinara said ” bonjour ” to ) and panoramic vistas.

Keeping up with the Tour de france which started this year in Italy we made a slight detour, walked under the raised barrier and found ourselves in an Italian high meadow.

Coming down was a lot easier than going up 🤣🤣