Gordes and the Village des Boires

We visited a town near our house called Gordes.  It is on the side of a mountain and many of the houses hang off the side of the cliff.  Near the town is a village which was lived in until early last century and was first built in the 12th century.  It is the village des Boires - a Boire is a type of stone hut.  The houses and buildings in the village are all made of dry stone, no concrete or mortar was used to build them.
We saw houses, storage rooms, a room where they grew silk worms to make clothes and cotton trees.  They had the remnants of a vege garden with herbs and they had goats and sheep and pigs for meat and milk and cheese.  They were self sufficient which means they grew all their own food and made all their own clothes and didn't need anyone else.  It was really cool to see how they lived, I think their life would be pretty good, they had meat, cheese, olives, vegetables and wine.  The inside of the houses were a bit spooky though. They also water in rivers near by and water troughs in the village.