La randonnée

The French love to go on walks and there are very many walking trails available to explore, either solo, as we did, or on organised 'randonnées', which Peter has done.
This was our first. There are brochures with trail decriptions available at the local tourism offices or online. It was quite well signed, a lovely walk, about 8km (5mi) and took us a bit less than 2 hrs. It led us past one of my favorite private chateaux, in Cromières. Mostly it was on little trails or small rural roads with only one very short stretch on a 'real' road. We went through a gorgeous little hamlet (with the clédier, the round structure, for drying chesnuts back in the day).