Apt then Die, and Vercors.

Spent a couple of days with my sister in Apt, and visited Gordes and Rousillon, two typical towns of the Luberon Vally, with hilltop settlements.

Moved on to Die: how can you NOT visit a place called Die !   East of Apt, it`s really pretty - starting to get into low Alpine country. Geoff`s beard is still managing to excite interest: a man man with a very impressive plaited beard stopped to say Geoff`s is not long enough yet to plait, but  did like the braid clips and asked where to get them. (Thanks Jeanette)  

More wiggly roads and scary hairpins in the afternoon; full lock at times and passing over the Col de Rousset at 1656m. Down into the Vercors area - more truly alpine scenery. This was a big resistance area in WW2, after June 1944 there was a big battle in the Vercors, and there are many monuments to the Resistance fighters, and many graveyards showing fighter and civilian casualties; graves of infants of 18 months up to old men of 91.  Very poignant.