5 April Aimargues-Vendargues 30 kilometres

One arch of a 13-arch bridge remains at the roman town of Ambrusson. Here we became quite lost as we had left the waymarked path to find accomodation for the previous night. Our hosts gave us directions to rejoin the path at the bridge but somehow we missed the signs and became hopelessly confused in a maze of on and off ramps to a major road. We did eventually rejoin the path and arrived in Vendargues to find the only hotel - where we had planned to spend the night - closed on a Sunday and the only bar serving no meals because of a bingo session. To our great delight, we met a French potter who let us her very comfortable gite for the night. It is right on the path and involved no lengthy detour. On exploring the town while waiting for the water to heat for a shower we found a pizza takeaway and a bakery for the next morning's croissants. All's well that ends well. She gave us each a pottery scallop when we left the following morning to catch a bus through Montpellier to save us pounding kilometres of city pavements.