On Monday 20 January Simon and I joined Fabrice, Monique, Danielle, Aline, Beryl, Annie, Jane and David on a 5 kilometre walk in 4°C sunshine. The route took us in a circuit from the carpark in la Roche Posay, through the golf course, past l'Oréal's spa, laboratory and magic water collection plant, down to the greenway (Fr. voie verte), across the viaduct and around over the road bridge back into the old centre of la Roche Posay.
The former Hostellerie du Prieuré, a wobbly old house at the entrance to town as you come over the bridge. Sadly such a patchwork of materials today that it is rather ugly.
Looking upstream along the Creuse river, from the bridge towards the viaduct.
The Castel, a grand 19th century house built on medieval ramparts overlooking the River Creuse.
Looking towards the church from the bridge.
This sign says you may fish for Black Bass from the bridge and along this stretch of the Creuse River, but strictly on a catch and release system. There is clearly no French expression for this, and they use the English 'catch and release' or 'no kill'.
The bridge and the Castel seen from across a flood meadow.
The viaduct across the Creuse River, once a railway bridge, now part of a greenway.
Looking from the viaduct along the Creuse River towards la Roche Posay.
The Creuse River, with quite high water.
Awwww....an abandoned child's Croc...along the greenway.
L'Oréal's facility, with magic water storage tanks in the foreground, the spa behind. The original spa is the pink building in the distance.
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