Kit and Carol on the Road

Today we had a break from medieval villages and decided to go out for a hike. Our hosts have lots of hiking books (in French) so I picked one that looked interesting and not too far away. Not far away is relative when you are driving windy roads through narrow village streets. We got to one village that we HAD to get through to go anywhere but what seemed to be the only road through town was blocked by a barricade. Finally I asked the working dudes and as soon as they figured out that Octon was Acktoong (the nearest I can get to phonetic spelling) they told us that we had to go left around the barricade and then go right. Sure enough as soon as you drove right up to the barricade you could turn left into the town center. We did get to Octon, and past the street pavers to the parking lot, and had a wonderful hike. Saw no other tourists but did see a medieval ruin and an ancient church.