Lot to talk about....Leaving Albertville and going to Sisteron

  We have not had the chance to post anything for the past few days because the B&B near Sisteron did not have internet access and the Château de Trigance that was built in the 9th century and had technology that also came from that period.

 

Route de Napoleon

  On Thursday June 7th we travelled to Sisteron on the route de Napoleon. The route is very well travelled and is quite beautiful. We passed through many small french villages some with very different names.  I had a hard time trying to pronounce some of them; but by the spelling of the names you could really tell that we were in France.

Sisterone

Our B&B near Sisterone was a bit difficult to find following the directions that we were given.  Good thing that we had Vanessa ( our GPS) or we would not have found it in the vast french countryside.  After finding "Les Charbonniers" we made use of  Patrick and Marie-Josee's swimming pool.  We took a little dip to cool off before exploring Sisterone. The weather was much warmer here than the cool mountains that we had just come from.

After a cooling dip, we made way to see the city of Sisterone.  The area was breathtaking.   The Citadel Museum had just closed 15 minutes before we arrived (guess we stayed in the pool too long) so we were only able to take pictures from the outside. It was OK because we saved the 18 euro admittion to buy a few more cafe and creme de glace!

Here is a picture of the Citadel from across the valley that we climbed.

Don't tell anyone but because we could not get in I thought I would grab a rock from the Citadel wall as a reminder. We later found out it was against the law to do so.  I hope the French police don't know how to use Google translate.

Just aross the river from the Citadel is another very famous landmark called the "Rocher de la Baume"  This is a natural rock formation that has the appearance of the pages of a book being opened.  Of course this would be one fricken big book.

This was taken from the base of the Citadel looking across the river

 towards  "Rocher de la Baume"

To get a sense of the scale of this formation here is a picture of two mountain climbers

 scaling up the lower face of "Rocher de la Baume"

As the night came to a end we walked our way back to the car, I saw this street decorated with what looked like Christmas lights.  I really liked the way it gave off a soft warm glow in the cool night air.