Today (after pickup), we were fitted for bikes, and went for a
short ride to Isle-sur-la-sorgue, where the earlier group had
already been for lunch, and then onto the Fontain de Vaucluse.
This is a famous resurgent spring, source of the River Sorgue -
the river, gathered from rainfall on the adjacent Luberon plateau,
periodically (read in spring) boils out of a hole in the ground,
at a rate of a thousand cubic metres per minute (but since its not
spring, read 'hole in the ground' at the moment)
Vaucluse, the name of the region, derives from the Roman
'Vallis Clausa' or 'closed valley' (well d'uh !) . The village of
Fontaine de Vaucluse was home to the poet Petrarque
(Petrarch in English) who is held to be the father of
mountaineering after writing a (probably ficticious) account
of his climb of Mt Ventoux.
Distance ~20km
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