By Maryanna Gabriel
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| Neolithic Site Near Fort Boux |
We walked through a Neolithic site that was stone age to a place called Fort Boux. We were all a bit entranced by the gate keepers house, charming pots of herbs, the shutters, the curtains, and we lingered there as the owner chased one of us out of his garden. Fort Boux overlooks an impressive canyon in the Aiguebrun Valley. Every century appeared to be represented. After we were all done some of us elected to follow our guide down the "secret staircase". Was that an experience. It was right out of Indiana Jones. Stones cut dramatically into a steep face wound treacherously down the mountainside and would have been invisible from marauders as it hugged
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| Fort Boux |
a cleft. Exhilarated, we passed a small troupe of people and I looked right into a the eyes of a blonde, blue eyed, pink-faced man without thought. As we moved on our group erupted. "That was Rick Steves!" one of us exclaimed. Well. Well. Our guides have this lovely Gallic shrug accompanied by a pout of the lower lip. Some of us tried imitating it. "Who is this Rick Steves?" I responded, "He is an American travel writer who does television documentaries." The shrug. Apparently he hadn't called. A girl has to look her best on the trail. You never know who you are going to bump into.
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