On June 19, 2008, David and Daniel (who both contributed photos to this page) drove up to the Domaine Les Courmettes, parked
the car, and started to hike up to the Plateau Saint Barnabé; we wanted to follow the GR 51 ('GR' stands for Grande Randonnée and denotes major hiking trails.
See this page for more information) to the hamlet of Saint Barnabé which we had seen on signposts but never visited. Getting to the
plateau took longer than we had anticipated, and when we had practically crossed its entire length we still couldn't see anything resembling a hamlet. Because we had plans later in the day, we were forced to
make our way back down the mountain.
Intrigued by the missing hamlet, Daniel drove up the Col de Vence a couple of weeks later, when David was back in the States, and found the place -- if three or four houses can be called
a place. As it turns out, we had been less than ten minutes away from Saint Barnabé when we turned around. Because of the shape of the terrain, one cannot see the hamlet until one is
practically in it. In fact, in the third row of photos from the bottom, the house in the background of rightmost image is the same one as the one in the center picture. While our inability to find Saint
Barnabé is perhaps a little embarrassing, the hamlet itself is, as you can see, not exactly spectacular. In this case as in so many others, the journey is definitely the reward: an easy hike, highly
recommended to everyone.
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