{"id":21710,"date":"2006-09-20T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/09\/day-17-ceillac-to-fouillouze.html"},"modified":"2006-09-20T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T10:14:00","slug":"day-17-ceillac-to-fouillouze-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=21710","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 Ceillac to Fouillouze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">The perfect day, the day you only dream about, walking across landscapes that Doc Searls gets to photo out of aeroplane windows. Incredible weather blue skys low 20&#8217;s doesnt get any better than this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">Great 3500ft climb first through forests then around the vivid  turquoise Lac Sainte-Anne in blissful silence (even the Marmots were quite today) followed by a zig zag ascent to  Col Giradin (where my pet hornet &#8211; who buzzes me whenever I stop  proceeded to buzz me). The way down was total scary, I&#8217;m  really going to miss these adrelanin rushes, back in Cambridge,  ( no nanny state here &#8211; you live or die by each footfall) on virtually vetical descents on soft shale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">Eventually through the village of La Barge ( a real old original dilapidated french hamlet in the Ubaye valley) then over the Pont du Chatelet &#8211; google it &#8211; the most amazing bridge with a 107 metre vertical dropinto the gorge and only 2 foot high side walls with nice gaps at each end for the kids to disappear through!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">The gite in Fouillouze www.gitelesgranges.com is an interesting  old building, beautifully restored and adorned with potted plants.  Looking forward to dinner as the dining room has a vaulted ceiling.  It took ages to get the guardian to understand my pronuciation of vegetarian :-(.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">Whilst walking now I can smell the  gorgeous scents from all the wild herbs etc also the bushes are more prickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\"> Will be on the final FFRP guide tomorrow  and the GPS is showing only 70 or so miles left..<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">Flight booked for next Thursday from Niceat 10am (thanks Nick) so I can be at Ems first sixth form parents evening. Will try and arrange an evening out in Cambridge on  Friday at The Pig.<br \/>Cheers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">Sent from Geoff&#8217;s Treo650<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perfect day, the day you only dream about, walking across landscapes that Doc Searls gets to photo out of aeroplane windows. Incredible weather blue skys low 20&#8217;s doesnt get any better than this. Great 3500ft climb first through forests then around the vivid turquoise Lac Sainte-Anne in blissful silence (even the Marmots were quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}