Walking for Crepes

Every February the walking club we belong to holds a public subscription walk that finishes by everyone scoffing homemade crêpes and cider. Us club members are asked to make 45 crêpes as our contribution. Here are some photos from this year's event.

We set up the salle des fêtes (village hall) in readiness for all those crêpe eaters.

 Walkers (including me) wait for the off.

We soon end up strung out alongside the old railway line.

This old bread oven is probably mostly used now to cook pizzas in the summer.

Old willows along a stream.

Donkeys in a field.

Barren Strawberry Potentilla sterilis (Fr. Potentille faux fraisier).

These will never produce red fruit like Wild Strawberries do. You can easily tell the plants apart because the central tooth at the tip of the leaf is shorter than the teeth either side. Whereas on a real Wild Strawberry Fragaria vesca (Fr. Fraisier des bois) that central tooth is longer.

A beautifully laid out garden in a rural setting.

Long-leaved Lungwort Pulmonaria longifolia (Fr. Pulmonaire à feuilles longues).

This intensely purple-blue early spring flowering wild flower is called lungwort because in the ancient Doctrine of Signatures plants were believed to have properties to treat body parts that they resembled. The leaves of Pulmonaria are said to resemble lungs, hence the name.

Artichoke plants in a vegetable garden.

Each walker was given a plate of five crêpes. Quite a few opted for a doggy bag.

A hall full of walkers enjoying our crêpes and cider.

We catered for about 180 walkers.

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