Pic de vissou,Herault.

Pic de vissou for a lovely walk and picnic this afternoon. We parked at the bottom and walked up the track on the north side to reach a small path which joins with the yellow marked route from the south. Wonderful views all around. Takes about an hour or so return. Lots of goats near the little quarry.

Villeneuvette,

Villeneuvette, a pretty and easy short walk that we enjoyed very much yesterday. 1 H and 3km on yellow markers. The Royal factory which made clothing at one time is the start of the walk with plenty of parking and there is a restaurant in the little village area. Follow the markers around to enjoy before views and lots of water features. Very pretty and interesting.

Les Barralets, Assignan

Les Barralets, Assignan. A delightful circular walk of 6.5km. Takes around 2 hours. Many beautiful views of the hills, valleys and vineyards. The walk starts at the rather oversized and ambiguous car park in Assisgnan (it's not sure whether it's a football pitch, bus stop, petanque area or car park, but it does also have a small shop within it). Now turn left and walk along the road to the statue of christ and then turn left to enjoy a small stone path up through the causse, keep right and reach a crossroads of paths. Go straight over and up to a view point where you look down over the vineyards to a lovely old chapel and a cross on top of a beautiful causse. The path turns left and goes up onto an open causse where you come to some fine views of the valley below and the hills around. Simply beautiful and a good spot for a picnic. Keep left and take the small path leading down to the road. Turn left, there is a small pond here just before the ruins of an old windmill. Turn left and right down a small track to reach the village just before an old cross. Take the right fork of the village to see more of the lovely old buildings, the castle town, church and many wine related buildings. Walk 27 of the OT leaflets.

Coustouges, near Saint-Vincent-d'Olargues.

Coustouges, col du Poirier. between Olargues and Fraisse-sur-Agout. this is a lovely easy walk with great views of the Espinouse. It's not a long walk, taking roughly an hour. No signs, just on forest tracks. mostly circular. Park at the col du Poirier, (ignoring the blue markers, they are for another much longer, more difficult walk that goes down to Coustouges and up to the col de Fontfroide and back down on a spectacular saddle on the opposite side of the beautiful and valley spectacular valley). Walk, to your left up the forest track with lovely views of the Espinouse, turning right and around the outside of the hill and then taking a left track where another path goes downhill. Through the forest of mostly chestnuts and pines on this track, then next left at another view point before continuing through the forest. When you reach the next junction keep right to return to cars.