This afternoon after light rain showers, we drove over the Luberon to Lourmarin and did a cycle loop down in the next valley to the south. Before we left, i took the picture below, the first day with any moisture in the air we have had since Brittany, and the first real rain - we had just a few very light showers up in Pont Aven.
This was the view from the veranda on the second level of the tower. Everyone around here has fancy metal work like the valence at the top of the photo. 
The chateau that sits across the park from the village of Lourmarin.
Lourmarin has the same range of shops as Gordes but it has a much flatter geography.
Card shop in the center of town with a rainbow collection of espadrilles
Tired of walking.
Overhead views from the road over to Gordes.
A beautiful pond in the middle of Cucuron, a beautiful surprise as we cycled up the hill to find it.
Unlike most of the plane trees we have seen, these have been trained up straight with cross tied cables which you can see in the photo below.
Below are a set of videos which show what the biking is like in the Luberon.
Betsy biking just outside Lourmarin
Biking through Lourmarin
After dinner we biked over into the next valley to the beautiful abbey at Senanque. We caught it just as the sun was going down and because of the contrast between the last light and the shadowy valley took pictures that are very different from the more common mid-day views of this beautiful place. With just a couple of other visitors when we first arrived and then none, the space was one of the quietest places I've ever visited.
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