On Thursday 13 January we did 11.5 kilometres from Le Grand Pressigny along the ridge above the Aigronne left bank, down into the valley, across the bridge, up to the rambling former monastery farm of Grandmont, then along the ridge of the Aigronne right bank, across to the troglodytes and back into town.
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| Single file on a muddy rural access track near Grandmont. |
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| This shed at Grandmont always makes me laugh. |
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| We were all very impressed by this neatly topiaried yew ball in a garden in a hamlet near Grandmont. |
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| This old apple orchard is still commercially productive. |
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| The entrance to a troglodyte cave. |
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| A troglodyte cave. |
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| View of the Chateau du Grand Pressigny over a garden wall. |
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| View of the Chateau du Grand Pressigny from Etableau. |
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| View of the Claise Valley from the ridge at Etableau between the Claise and the Aigronne. |
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| The ridgeway between the Claise and Aigronne valleys. |
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| The Aigronne Valley, with Grandmont on the horizon. The atmospheric haze is probably caused by the smoke from wood fires heating people's houses. |
2 comments:
At one moment, I thought it was the Prieuré de Grandmont-Villiers!
chm: Same order, different location. They got everywhere around here. Dozens of Grandmontian sites.
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