In search of a new route and shocking behavior...

 

Over the last couple of days Pauline and I have been trying to find a new 5km walk locally that we can do as we have offered to lead a walk on Monday. On Friday we set off on a longer walk up towards the Le Rond du Chêne with a view to going off piste and using a path that would link to one of our shorter routes. The plan seemed to be working as an unfamiliar path brought us out to a spot we recognized - the only problem was a new electric fence blocked our way and Pauline refused to touch it to check if it was live...shocking!

This meant we had to walk back the way we came and made us end up doing over 7km in total!

Yesterday we decided to return to a well worn path on the other side of the valley but adding in a part that Fabrice had introduced us to but doing it in reverse! 

Big mistake!, the climb was very long and not a great start for a walk so we will leave it to the end as before. 

We were compensated a little however by the colours of autumn.