Fouzilhon, Languedoc.

A lovely walk from Fouzilhon today. Blue markers but in reverse.Taking the D15E3 from Laurens and parking in the center of the village. The walk is about 7 or 8 km and is easy walk throughout. The views are quite stunning across the plain even on a cloudy day as it was today. Starting from the village center (this is a lovely old medieval village with a beautiful church and lovely little lanes that wind up to the top with pretty views). Now turn left onto the D174 and walk uphill to a small group of trees on your right. Take this right turn onto a little track road that travels through pretty vineyards and has lovely views back to the village (do not turn off this track). After the small incline you will come to a T junction of tracks, turn right here and follow this track all the way to the road. Now turn right for a short way, it's not the first left turn but the one where the road bends. Turn left here. Now you have a choice; for a slightly longer walk with lovely views down to Roquessels keep left going straight ahead on a wide track through the garrigue.The track loops back right to join the other track. Or after turning left keep right down passed a small area of garrigue with bee hives to your right. This area is lovely, a high wild area of garrigue and grass. You will have to cross a ditch where the locals having been having a dispute over land rights and have placed large stones to stop vehicles passing. Don't take the first right but the second one, down a wide track with grassy sides. keep on this track until you reach a junction of tracks, keep straight on here and on up over the hill. The track returns to the village over Mont Mazou and finally joining the D174 where you can either turn right to the village or straight over passed the wells and pretty old farm buildings to the village center. Map at end of pictures shows whole signposted walk. This walk is the west side of the walk.

Fouzilhon

Fouzilhon. 8km. 2.30H. easy.Blu waymarks on full walk but we turned off and did the eastern half with an easy unsign posted diversion. 

A really love walk with a good wild feel about it. We enjoyed watching rabbits on the scrubby tops and listening to larks up above. Very peaceful spot for a good walk. 

The walk starts by taking the D174 to Fouzilhon. Parking is found at the southern end of the village next to the Boules area. 

This is also where the walk begins. Now walk up towards the cemetery and turn right off onto another small track road through the vineyards. 

The colours are changing in the vineyards at the moment and there were a couple of tractors about ploughing but otherwise there was no one around. 

The little road passes a wooded hill and drops down onto the D174, turn right here and walk for a few minutes down the road to a left turn on a corner. It's not a busy road, we only saw one car. 

Take the left turn up the incline and follow the main wide dirt track as it goes over the hill on scrubby land. The track narrows to a small pathway through a stone walled track between previously brunt garrigue. 

The land is recovering well and it has a lovely airy feel here. When the path reaches a wide track in a large cleared area the route turn right and follows the wider track through this grassy area. 

The views are beautiful up here and we picniced on a stone wall overlooking the beautiful Avant monts. just after the boundary wall there is a track to the left leave the blue markers here. 

Follow this at first through the scrubby woodland and then down a concrete lane through vineyards back to Fouzilhon. 

The village itself is medieval and is lovely to wander up the little passages to the church and the viewpoint at the top. We decided we liked the walk so much we would return another time to do the western side of the walk. 

The full walk is 11.5km and takes 3.45H. It's one of the boxed set leaflets. No 6. Although there is a map on the last picture.