Lofty Heights: Exploring Luberon’s Charming Perched Villages

“Don’t think there aren’t discoveries to be made in the many hilltop (perché) towns of this well-loved pocket of Provence. A car is a must, but walkers will encounter the area’s glorious nature firsthand.

Three mornings into our stay in Goult, a tiny village perched above the Luberon Valley, we woke to find the front door of our storybook-charming townhouse ajar and our seven-year-old daughter nowhere to be found. So we did the only logical thing in a town of a few hundred inhabitants – we ran to the local café. There she sat at her own little table, croissant in hand, chatting with the regulars. Already on first-name terms with the owner, she also knew the names of every cat in town and had adopted the next-door neighbour’s tabby, Poochie, who spent the week lazing on our front terrace in the shade of grapevines and wisteria.”