Dawn is golden, is a Dutch saying. I looked outside. Instead of gold I saw thick snowflakes. At 8:30 Marjan, Ruud and I, along with Tosca, got out of the car in Theux. My aim was to make up for one of the skipped stages. You know how it is with the village gossip: if
Sunday February 22nd 2015. Vijlen 2 km.
9 am Breakfast. Then picking up horse Leon in the riding school in Oignies-en-Thierache (what a name), in Northern France, where Leon had been resting from Tuesday night. We accepted a long drive home through the sunny Ardennes. After a long search for a suitable lunch occasion, we finally sat down near my home address,
Friday February 20th 2015 Marche-En-Famenne more than 20 km
Today is drizzling rain again. After breakfast the gruppo sportivo drives me to the end of yesterday’s walk, Houyet in Belgium, about 60 km. from our current lodge in Haybes, Northern France. There in Houyet I get dropped, but not after first of all entering the same bakery-patisserie where we yesterday had coffee with “festering
Thursday February 19 th 2015 from Givet to Houyet, 21 km
After a long breakfast and making an extended toilet the athletes went by car to the spot where the walk stopped yesterday, Givet. Horse Leon continues to celebrate his holiday in the riding center in Oignie-en-Thierache. Dog Tosca was allowed to join us. First we went culturally, by entering the medieval village Hierge, not to
Monday February 17th 2015 Oignies-en-Thierache 30 km
Many examples of the Ardennes way of house construction: Ardennes rubble with window- and door frames of heavy blue stone, also called Namur stone, and on the corners of the walls blue cornerstones of different sizes. Photo. Tosca made my distance double again. Right now she is occupied by a cattle rib she found in
