Up and down the river...

Yesterday Pauline and I walked over to Barrou to join Norman and Margaret and Dennis and Angela for lunch at the restaurant. After lunch D&A dropped us off in Mairé to allow us to walk the new river walk back to Le Petite Guerche, having previously done it the other way. This would ultimately make the total walking distance for the day 9.2 km.

The views up and down the river.

On the walk you can see the work that the commune have done to make it safer and accessible.

There is a pile of timber awaiting the transformation into a viewing platform that looks down the river for a view of the chateau at La Guerche in the distance.

The bridge to La Guerche and the view up the river from there.

Say you'll meet me down at the beach...

After returning to the village following our walk on Tuesday Pauline decided we had not done enough steps so we decided to check out the little beach we had spotted while doing the new river walk on Saturday. 

During the hot spell in summer we had noticed our neighbour Paul Henri returning from a bit of river swimming and he suggested we should try it. It's not something we do but we were curious as to where it was exactly. After having spotted it from the opposite river bank we headed down to the river bank knowing it was not too far along it.

Looking back down river to the bridge.

We found a reasonably well trodden footpath but it was nit without its challenges...

before arriving at the little beach.