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Walk 28 Sentier de Pompidou

Walk 29 Round Barre-des-Cévennes

Walk 30 Round Fontmort Forest

Walk 31 Sentier des Cans

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Day 1 Florac to Mijavols

Day 2 Mijavols to Les Bastides

Day 3 Les Bastides to Le Bleymard

Day 4 Le Bleymard to Les Laubies or La Fage

Day 5 Les Laubies or La Fage to Florac

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Appendix A Glossary of local words

Appendix B Table of Walk Times

Appendix C Maps

Appendix D Tourist Offices and Syndicats d'Initiative

Appendix E Market Days

INTRODUCTION

In my bedroom in the large rambling house where I grew up was a shelf full of an odd assortment of books, old and new. It was not until my early teens that I noticed a small, insignificant book entitled Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was my first introduction to a mysterious region of wild rolling hills and gorges in southern France. At the time I cared little about the Cevennes, but was more interested in the antics of a stubborn small donkey called Modestine, who sometimes consented to carry the few belongings of a then unknown Scottish student as he wound his way up and down dale.