Puy Mary - Wednesday September 26th 2018

I wanted to go back to Puy Mary as the scenery en route is possibly the nicest. The Jordanne Valley is very beautiful. When we stopped at Puy Mary everything was silent, despite there being lots of people all set with their walking poles and rucksack to climb to the summit. The silence was intensified by the non-stop carillon of the cow bells. At first we could not see the cattle but a bit farther up we could see them grazing down below. It was only 11am so we continued on, the plan being to go to Le Lioran but Nuvi was putting us onto an unpaved road so we just continued on down from Puy Mary and finally Nuvi picked up Murat which Jim said we should head for – I couldn’t see the point of that as it was north. Anyway, Jim knows best and we ended up on another hair-raising road. Finally we reached a village with a sign that pointed to Muarat back the way we had come. I knew it was going to put us on an unpaved road again and suggested that we go to Salers. That brought us through the Col de Mouronne – a much more beautiful road where we had been before on the day that we tried to visit the Buron and have a repas des buronniers. Anyway that brought us home where we started the clear up.

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