16 years ago I bought a poster of La Transhumance, but I didn’t really know what it was. I just knew that I liked sheep. This past weekend we had the opportunity to accompany our daughter’s scout troop to witness La Transhumance of a herd of sheep leaving Vendres and heading up to the Pyrénées mountains. As we were all having breakfast together, and before heading out for a long hike to find the sheep, we collectively wondered how to say TRANSHUMANCE in English. Duh… it’s the same word.
The day was lovely! We started out having breakfast as a group, then made our way down toward the path up which the sheep would arrive with their shepherd (that’s this guy’s only job, I love that!). It took about an hour and a half one-way, but check out the video to see what came next. It was well worth the time spent walking, and plus we got to check out the ruins of an ancient Roman bath along the way.
Living in Languedoc 