...and the foothills.

Having returned from the mountains and had a day's recovery, yesterday (Sunday) we thought we'd go for a little walk.  We went to a nearby pretty village with a waterfall which we had last been to about 10 years ago.

(There is a village in all of the trees!)

Since our last visit, the area around the waterfall has been vastly improved as a visitor facility; better pathways, an organised route, clear signing, etc.  So off we set and found that we were climbing up the side of the waterfall and arriving eventually above it.

We pressed on as the walk seemed to be circular taking in the 'Chateau des Anglais', a look-out for the English in the 100 years war.  The path became 'interesting' ...

... but we eventually arrived at the Chateau des Anglais.

It was at this point that things went wrong!  As we thought that the walk was a circular tour we turned left out of the Chateau instead of returning to the waterfall, and we found ourselves walking across the hillside on an ever diminishing track which eventually petered out.  At this point discretion meant that we retraced our steps back to the Chateau, although not without incident ... as at one point Sue, in 'leaping' up a rocky step banged her head against the projecting rock face and fell back into my arms.

Back on the right path, we eventually returned to civilisation and our pic-nic after our walk which had taken us about 3 and a half hours!!!!

Enough mountains for the moment.