Into the South

Two restful days at Naussac doing nothing much. Sat reading in the semi shade the creases on my stomach shielded from the sun, I now look like I've been griddled with white lines across my belly. It keeps people amused.

We picked up some emails from the solicitor about problems with the NHS part of the sale. Nothing we can do even if we were home. The money we're still owed looks a bit more distant though.
We also got a message from Sue's Mum to say her Dad was in hospital . We rang as soon as we found out and he's home and it's hopefully "just" an infection. It prompted a discussion about what we'd do if a serious situation developed. We decided we'd have to improvise that one.
We left not very early Friday morning bound for Les Vans. Really expecting a linking ride between two areas.
22km of gentle climb followed by 40km of down as we came off the Massif Centrale.
As we turned of the main road to begin the drop we entered a deep heavily wooded nearly deserted valley. We saw 3 cars in the first 20k and no walkers or bikes.
We went down slowly taking in the sights, sounds and smells. A cacophony of crickets, the aroma of warmed herbs and the greens, browns and blues of the Borne valley. This merged at Pied de Borne into a slightly busier but still quiet gorge. (begins with a "C" but I have no map and can't remember it's name.)
Saw our first roadside cactus ate lunch with our feet in the river and really felt there was no better way to spend a day.
Found the site at Les Vans easily although they seem to have forgotten to install toilets (well nowhere near enough) and the town and Super U is at the bottom of another kilometre hill. Oh well, small price to pay.
Sites here are now much busier and prices are creeping up. 17€ for a two star.
Tricky couple of days to come with finding sites and riding through the Ardeche gorge but today.....another market.