On Monday 5 February we joined the Phoenix en Claise walking group for a 6 kilometre circuit from the small pretty village of Mairé, overlooking the Creuse River. This is always a challenging walk, as it includes the most elevation change of any of our local walks. We had to struggle up a further 145 metres from our start point -- nowhere else has this much climbing! And it was very muddy in places. We had to stop twice to lever mud off our boots with sticks we found at the side of the track. The walk took one and three-quarter hours, including fording streams, climbing hills, taking photographs and shedding mud build ups.
Mairé town hall and war memorial.
The main street of Mairé and looking down into the Creuse Valley.
Palms in a front garden in the village (I assume Windmill Palm Trachycarpus fortunei).
A view from the heights.
Fording a stream...
...because the foot bridge looks like this...
Abandoned agricultural machine.
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