Yesterday's walk in pictures - first of the new season.

Sisters enjoying a musical evening in Mairé...

On Saturday evening we all headed over to the musical evening at Mairé where the village put on an night of music and Pizzas from their communal oven, all served up in a friendly atmosphere...good fun!

Ups and downs of walking around La Guerche.

Yesterday morning we took Eileen up the hill behind La Petite Guerche, it's quite the climb! Once you get on to the path winding through the woods you still have a bit to do with teasing corners trying to convince you that each has you arriving at the top.

That doesn't actually happen until you catch sight of the mast.  

Then it's pretty much all downhill from there onto the road up to Le Rond du Chêne and back to La Petite Guerche.

 

Two sisters / two Georges...

Yesterday we headed up to Loches with Eileen where we did one of our favourite walks over to Beaulieu-lès-Loches and back then followed this up with lunch at 'Le George', a good day out.

Au revoir...

Lovely evening here in La Guerche last night with dear friends Mike and Liz on what was their last day in France for this year. We wish them a safe journey home and look forward to catching up in the future.

 

A walk in Descartes..

On Monday we took Eileen on one of our walks in Descartes, along the voie vert ,the river Creuse and onto the public gardens which were looking remarkably lush considering the recent very hot spell.

If you go down to the woods today...

 Well actually yesterday or Saturday in La Rond du Chêne you would have come across these scenes of a reenactment of the base camp of French Resistance and SAS fighters ('Operation Moses' – August/September 1944) to conduct guerrilla actions against the occupying German army who were active around La Roche-Posay and Chatellerault.

There was also the unveiling of a memorial to commemorate their actions which ultimately led to the surrender of General Botho Elster and his very large German column at Issoudun. 

Back on the road again...

We did our first real walk (7km) yesterday since the current heatwave started and although it was a bit misty but with the temperature at 20 deg. it was ideal.

The sun started to break through as we returned to La Guerche and as we passed a rather sparse field of sunflowers we noticed they seemed to have survived the drought rather better than some we have seen.  

There was also some unexpected flourishes of colour.