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| Chavanay. |
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| Between Chavanay and Bessey. |
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| The church at Bessey. |
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| This way to Paradise. |
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| View from the woods. |
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| Someone's lovely driveway. |
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| Landscape with horses. |
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| The church at Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette. A friendly bar owner from this village phoned a hotel, Le Relais, in Bourg-Argental to book a room for me. |
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| Paradise in sight: the approach to Bourg-Argental. For the moment, a perfect world. |
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| A broad and fertile valley beyond Revel-Tourdan. |
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| There's always someone who doesn't follow the crowd, isn't there? Thank God. |
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| Colourful caterpillar. |
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| Following a shorter, variant route through the Bois de Taravas, I soon approached a more mountainous landscape. |
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| After a long day covering more than 30 km, I crossed the Rhône and entered the riverside town of Chavanay. The old part of town lay just up a valley of vine-clad slopes. |
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I spent the night at a communal gîte next to the church with other French, German and Swiss walkers. It was a Sunday, and most places were shut, but we managed to find a small restaurant - with a proper pizza oven - that was open, so we enjoyed an excellent pizza washed down with rosé wine. Before this we'd eaten delicious sweet chestnuts which some French pilgrims had gathered along the day's route, then simmered in water for an hour in the gîte. |
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| The restored chapelle du Calvaire above Chavanay. |
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| A simple stone alcove and cross behind the chapelle du Calvaire. |
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| Last sight of Chavanay in the early morning mist. |
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| The Way continues. Only 1631 more km to Compostelle! |
