Wednesday 9 October 2024

Tuesday 8 October 2024

A morning walk and 'chercher du pain' in Descartes.


Despite this current spell of bad weather we managed a good 6 km walk this morning through the gardens and around the town at Descartes in lovely conditions. I had suggested a change from Pauline's normal Barrou walk as one, the park is lovely and two we were going to check out one of the town's boulangeries as when out recently at neighbours for aperitifs they gave us delicious sliced baguette which had cheese and meat toppings baked in. Unfortunately as you can see in the last pic.we picked the wrong day!












Monday 7 October 2024

The "four banal"

 

One of the interesting features of the 'Octobre Rose' walks on Saturday was the firing up and baking at the 'four banal' which was the communal oven used during the Middle Ages. It allowed local inhabitants to bake their bread by paying a tax to the lord, who owned the oven.  


The result was a tasty small bread roll for the walkers.

Sunday 6 October 2024

How lucky were we...

When you consider the weather today we were so lucky yesterday for the walk for 'Octobre Rose' around Le Grand-Pressigny, a beautiful day under a blue sky. The organisers have to be congratulated for the great effort in dressing the village and supervising the walks. I am sure a lot of money was raised for such a good cause.