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Start of walk: Grenitote car park Distance: 10km/6 mile loop Ascent: flat!

Gordes The priority for our last full day in the Luberon was the beautiful village of Gordes, another of France’s prettiest.

Many years ago we stayed near Lacoste in the Luberon, a beautiful, well-to-do area made famous by Peter Mayle in his book ‘A Year in Provence.’

Intro There’s nowhere quite like the South of France for Mediterranean glitz and beauty.

This is a nice walk which can be shortened considerably if you decide to go up Farleitter Crag directly, which if doing the full loop, comes at the end of the circuit.It’s a popular family walk as is the short steep pull up the good path to the summit whe…

DAY 2:Walks, Cancellations and Good Food Showery morning but all the dark clouds and rain were on the Hilo(east) coast and further south around Kona.

THE BIG ISLAND/HAWAII (4 nights/3 days) With 4 nights here, there were 3 trips we really wanted to do on the island, two of which I’d booked in advance: The Mauna Kea Summit Sunset and Stargazing trip ($320 each) Snorkelling Trip to Captain Cook Bay ($110…

Na Pali Boat Trip We were booked onto the 2pm sailing with Makana Charters from Port Allen, about a 90 min drive south.

This was the island that had drawn me the most to Hawaii in terms of landscape – the Na Pali cliffs looked amazing as did the north of the island.In fact, the boat trip to see the cliffs was my No 1 ‘must see’ of the whole trip – IF weather allowed.A long,

Breakfast of fruit and toast on the balcony, high 70s temperature as the sun came up.I should say now that we both arrived in Hawaii ‘walking wounded.’