The Stevenson trail (GR70) winds through France near where Robert Louis Stevenson went with his donkey Modestine. I have placed it chronological order for easier reading.
Short day with a steep start up out of Luc. My phone is fully flat now so no pictures but we are going to come back around to La Bastide after staying at Catherine’s the night. Angelynn showed us a neat trick today. A couple was trying to get their donkey (Modestine? I assume they …
The next day it was decided that we would do the part of the GR70 to La Bastide that we missed last time including the monastery that we missed having taken our shortcut. Bert is also getting picked up there as he needs to return to Le Puy to catch the train to go and …
Serremejan is an abandoned village in the middle of the woods not to far from the source of the Lot. It was actually a really nice days walk to get there. Although I was still coughing bitterly in the morning once my lungs dried out I would be fine until the evening although my stamina …
This was probably the longest day on the journey. We set off from Serremejan and went to the source of the Lot for breakfast. Down to le Bleymard and then up a long, long hill that went all the way until the summit of Mont-Lozere on the border on the Cevenne. It was actually not …
Another shortcut. Although some of today’s one is an official variant at least. After le Pont de Montvert we climbed a steep track out of the valley and up into the forest before using GR72 to shave some more time off. Lunch was in the forest near a giant ant hill and then down to …