Sunday, September 9, 2018

Off to a slow start this morning, town filling up again with shoppers and others. After coffee and some walking around, back to the apartment to say goodbye to Mai and Fabien as they head for Paris. Then headed up to the Petit Balcon Sud. This is a lower level trail through the forests that goes up and down the valley but below the Grand Balcon Sud trail. Still ended up being a rigorous few hours of hiking with the lovely Chalet Floria mid way. Came out in Les Praz and took the train back to Chamonix at the end. I managed to arrange my trip to Avignon on Tuesday, the best routing I found involves a 3:40min bus ride to Lyon airport then TGV of 1:54 to Avignon. Luckily it was a discount TGV, so only 15 euros. Got a response from the AirBnb hosts so have what looks to be a nice apartment reserved in Avignon. Found a wine tour on Thursday that will get me to Gigondas, Cairanne and Vacqueras.