Bonjour tout le monde! For todays blog we do a little exploring in beautiful Hyères (E’re as it be pronounced).
So this is quite a cute little town that has a distinct medieval feel to it and in some parts did remind me of Valparaíso in it’s back streets but there isn’t much street art to see.
Now one of the big parts of history of this region is the crusades, Many famous crusaders came from this region and played a big part in more or less all of the big crusader missions to the holy land including the first crusade and the Provencal crusaders even established a crusader state called the county of Tripoli in modern day Lebanon.
This town also has a castle from the days of the crusaders and naturally I decided to have an explore up there. It took about an hour to hike up there and it was a good hike but bloody hot. It’s currently around 35 degrees down here so had quite a sweat on getting up there.
This castle is called Potence and it has a great Panoramic view of the town and areas around it. There isn’t much history of it on site but from what I can find out, it was built in the 12th century then ended up under the rule of Count Charles of Anjou in the 13th century, before it was eventually dismantled in the 1620’s under order of king Louis XIII.
After this I went back downhill into town and had some ice cream and a light lunch before meeting back up with the family and once more blobbing out on the beach.
Later that night we went back into town for some tapas which was absolutely lovely as well. We wrapped up in town quite early then went back and watched the world cup footy. While we were chatting Clive tells me they have some domestic stuff to sort out in the week so recommended I take a trip over to Marseille. I do just that.
The next installment will take us to Marseille.
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