Les Sagnes. Chapel of St Martin des Oeufs. Olargues. A pretty short walk in the Languedoc

Les Sagnes. Chapel of St Martin des Oeufs. Olargues. The whole walk including the hamlet of Le Cros is 7.4km 2 Hours but with my poorly ankle it took us a while to get to the chapel and so we took a return short cut and ended up going down a very pretty route but not really a good one for me. Our walk was about 5km 1H.30. (not including a lovely breakfast picnic at the chapel). No markings.

Park on the D908 near the picnic area or walk over the bridge and take the first little concrete lane on your right. Lovely views looking back of Olargues. Continue on this beyond the houses and you will reach a junction.

Turn right onto the track with lovely views of the Espinouse. Ignore the any other tracks at vineyards and keep right at a fork, climbing up the main track. ignore vineyard tracks that go through the vineyards to the village of Mas du Gua.

The main track winds up though the woods now keep left at the next junction and you will soon come to the chapel of St Martin des Oeufs. It's a very pretty chapel and well worth a visit (with it's shady picnic table it make a good spot for a picnic too).

Now on other occasions we have carried on to Les Codouls, Les Sagnes and Le Cros before descending into the Rouilouse ravine and back to Olargues but this time we merely turned around and went back to the first junction but taking the left turn instead. The track has lovely views here up to the Montahut, across to the Caroux and down the Jaur valley.

The track bares right and goes through some lovely old vineyards that are high up here on this beautiful spot. Take the right track at the following junction that leads around the rocky viewpoint and head back into the pine trees.

It's very tricky to find the little path leading down through the pines, but you will locate it by looking for a pile of stones beside a tree on your right. Follow the little footpath down through the recently burnt undergrowth in the pines (it's quite steep, I had to do most of it on my bottom due to my damaged ankle, but I'm sure you will be fine) and you will come out on the little concrete lane that you started on.

Turn left and head back to the village of Olargues. Olargues has some lovely little restaurants, bars and even a new pizza restaurant by the post office. There is a village shop, a delicatessen, bakers and some great little shops and artist studios to enjoy too. Enjoy.