The moment we entered the village, I felt love-at-the-first-sight, again.

The village sits astride a rushing mountain stream that divides the two halves with a narrow rocky canyon.

Moustiers has been the centre of pottery trade, especially “faience” ceramics, for centuries.

The whole village is packed full of “faience” shops, very few normal shops.

The center of the village, quite tourist oriented and looks prosperous to me.

Interesting, that’s the place I wanted to visit… Absolutely beautiful.

I wonder if the rocks ever fell down from the cliff all these years?

The best thing is, our hotel room is facing this side. Whenever we looked out from our room, this postcard scene we would get to see.

And that’s the scene on our left hand side.
 

Our room, old yet charming…

There is a balcony in our room, with absolutely fantastic view.

When I was sitting on the balcony, I noticed there is a golden star hangs on a long chain suspended between 2 cliffs. According to the legend, during the Crusades, the knight Bozon de Blacas held prisoner by the Saracens vowed to hang a star over the village on his return. No one knows how it was originally hung there. The original star and chain have been replaced several times. The current star is about 50 years old.Cool.

The owner didn’t even bother to follow me when I went upstairs to take a look of more of her display. So I could take my own sweet time to admire them, also, to take some photos of the display.

 That’s the kind of front door I admire….

 

The time was nearly 5.30 pm by then, but we still walked like a turtle towards the old church built on the cliff.

A walk up to the chapel has given us a fantastic view…

 The stone path is very slippery. William and I should have worn the sport shoes instead of convenient slippers…sigh.

 For husband and Vincent who did wear the sport shoes, they were ok to walk on this slippery path. 

Excellent view of the village. This chapel is called Notre-Dame de Beauvoir chapel, sitting high in the notch above the village.

So warm, so beautiful….

The big waterfall next to our hotel….A romantic restaurant for dining. Judging from its relatively high class setting, we think the price is at high end too. Old-husband-old-wife like us didn’t want to spend too lavishly on this.