And no wonder!
0ur walk went really well today. There was quite a crowd of us, which is always nice, and we met up early at St Julien la Geneste.
The weather was good for a ramble too – dry but not too warm, and so we rambled for miles, up and down a couple of hills, all over a few farm tracks, little by-ways and the odd forest here and there. It was quite an expedition.
We visited a couple of natural springs in the area on our way around but ended up at the highest point of our voyage at the little chapel on the hill at the back of Gouttieres, the Eglise de Notre Dame des Blés that Marianne the local journalist/historian and I visited the other day.
This made a suitable place to have a little pause because it was hard work for some of our crowd to climb up all the way to here.
It’s not far from the chapel where you can find the old Roman gold mine – the one about which there was so much controversy the other day.
We had a good look around but of course we didn’t find the gold. It was something of a forlorn hope, I do have to admit. Mind you, Emilie, the girl who led the walk, knows where you CAN go to do some gold-panning and furthermore is taking a coach trip there on 5th of June. What a shame that I won’t be here for that.
It was all downhill after that back to St Julien la Geneste and we ended up having a meal as well afterwards, so much for all my plans
What with one thing and another it was gone 21:00 when we left. Time flies so quickly when you are in good, convivial company.
