Day 49 - June 13: Bonnieux to L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (43mi/69km)

First stop the pont Julian. Not the Pont du Gard, but an impressive roman feat nonetheless – this was used for cars until 2006!

Gordes. Another of the thousand most beautiful villages in France. It is beautiful, and crowded. I’ll stop with the long shot, but lots of alley pictures available upon request…

Hodge podge of natural and manmade support

And a good thing too!

Next stop Fontaine de Vaucluse. Here an underground spring bursts forth creating this torrential river. Amazing, mostly because it comes from nowhere and the rest of the area is bone dry.

Instead we have some amazing local strawberries

All over this area we see these funny rock hives - turns out they are dwellings used into the 19th cen made by just piling up rocks… very… carefully.

Beehive oven?

Even now the construction seems to be rock walls with minimal masonry. Again, Provence gots rocks

Closeup of amazing stone sorting and stacking

Some things seen on the road to L'isle-sur-la-Sorgue - this nice chapel

A pont – not the Pont du Gard, but pretty pont-o-rific nonetheless

After a GPS snafu, we find our sweet gite — Mas la Vitalis. Nice shading system!

Then we head out to town - past the chickens

Rube Goldberg device

Restaurants ring the lake in town. But we did not get one of those nice tables over the water. Instead we ate in a tourist trap - a meal so undistinguished that I didn’t even photograph it. (Eric had duck leg.)