Aah! It’s already 10:36. We arrived between 4:30-5. 13 miles today, not the most difficult terrain, but today I felt it. (Could have taken a nap in the shower.) Especially the last hour and those dang rocks and roots. A serious lack of balisages didn’t help, having to deduce the route and hope to see a marking. Good news is, it always worked out. I then think of pilgrims in the middle ages – how did they follow a route? Was it more obvious back then? Were they on the well traveled commerce route and not traipsing through the woods? Though it would have been through woods. We think we were on another bit of Roman road today.
Seems we entered Protestant country today. Saw one Protestant church and a stylized Huguenot cross on a house. No photo of that, but there was also this building.
Stayed at the above in Génolhac last night. The night before in a similar faded glory Hotel Balme in Villefort, though Balme was better. Still the dinner at Chalet was great (rogail de saucisse) and thank goodness for that as it was the only place to get a meal.
A lot of these small towns we walked through have well maintained homes that are closed up. We think that, like in Luc, many are vacation homes as the Cevennes National Park is so close.
Creative people:
Time to call it lights out. 😴
Shared Illusions 
Beautiful country. Any other walkers?
Few people anywhere.
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Since diverging from the shared GR70/GR700 a few days ago we have not seen another hikers. But as we were leaving the Ibis hotel here in Alés, a randonneur couple was checking in. Wanted to talk with them, but it was taking long for them to check in. Maybe we’ll see them later.
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