View from Viens

The redeeming feature of Viens is the hiking trail on the hill in town. You walk out of town to a little overlook and look over a valley. Directly behind you is a little, narrow, steep staircase that seems to be melting into the hill. It's all loose and a little precarious. If you're nosy, like we were two years ago, you walk up the stairs and discover a narrow trail, mostly rock and loose pebbles, that winds up the outside of the hill. There are many different "textures" to the hike. At some points you are edging between tall scratchy weeds and the next you are near the edge of a seriously vertical drop then you're on flat ground through sparse woods and a bunch of houses.

The reward is a set of views overlooking the valley. Very pretty. Here is one of them.