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Luberon and Les Alpilles - from Riez to Eygalières
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Click and drag on map above to see area around trail. Click here for large zoomable map. This eighth and last section of the H2H is, as it should be, a celebration of Provence. You are done with mountains – from now on you walk through the hills and dales of what for most people is the true heart of Provence. The lavender is no longer in bloom, but its scent still perfumes the autumn air. Ancient farmhouses (“Mas”) with their fields and orchards, their vineyards and their olive groves, dot the landscape. The villages are if anything even more lovely than those you have seen so far, with cafés and restaurants and weekly markets that will tempt you to tarry and to eat far more than you should. But here's a question: what awaits you at the end of the H2H in St.-Rémy? Somehow just hopping in a train or a plane and heading home doesn't seem like it would be a fitting conclusion to such an expedition. With that in mind, here's what we chose to do.... Before starting the H2H, in a fit of optimism, we made the necessary arrangements to have a grand party at the end. Since many of our friends and relatives were "guest" hikers on the H2H, they were already part of the adventure and thus it was relatively easy to convince them to make a second trip in October to take part in the celebrations. We called it the Neverest Fest. And what better way to finish the H2H than with several days of feasting and dancing and drinking and telling of tall tales in Provence? 1670km – over a thousand miles – of hiking, more than ten Everests-worth of climbing and knee-jarring descent, four months on the trails… if that isn't worth a party, I don't know what is. One last word: if the H2H captures your imagination and you decide to hike it, or something like it, then I will count myself as well rewarded for the effort it took to build this site. Stages
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H2H: The House to House Hike
