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Montreval Verane
A morning in a working forest with the four families who work it.
The forest above the eastern shore has been worked continuously for longer than anyone has kept records, and is thinned on a fourteen-year rotation by four families who hold the licence between them. It is not a protected forest and it is not a wild one. It is a crop, on a very long timescale.
The walk climbs about four hundred metres over two hours, to where the larch gives out and the limestone begins, and comes down a different way. Whoever is working that week walks with you. They will show you which trees are marked, explain why, and — if you ask — be quite direct about what the last three warm winters have done to the cycle.
In short
What is included
Elsewhere
Montreval Verane
Row six kilometres of flat water before the valley is awake, and have breakfast at the far end.
2 hours 30 minutes — €140 a person
Montreval Calanera
The cliff path to Vinca, then into the sea caves, then lunch on the boat.
5 hours — €180 a person
Maison Aubris
Down into the chalk with the winemaker, at six, with a glass and a torch.
2 hours — included in every stay
Reservations
Our own team answers, not an agency. Rates fall on the fourth night and again on the seventh, which tells you what we would prefer.