A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Beautiful house: one of many
8.00am and a seriously beautiful pile with landscaped gardens and big trees.
Still climbing
11.33 and I'm still slowly going up hill, though through some lovely country'side and, as you can see, all the roads are almost traffic free.
Beautiful butcher's
11.51am. Not only are the houses beautiful but even the butcher's shops are pretty. I was seriously hungry by this point though and there was no where open that sold food. There was a promising looking restaurant, closed today though.
Chateau: La Clayette
12.25am I'd misread the map and thought that the downhill to this lake was the wrong way - though it wasn't. I'd spent some time trying to find any one of the three restaurants signposted at the entrance to the town and finally gave up. I finally found one just opposite the chateau that you can see at the end of this lake.
Pity I was so hungry and in a rush to find the restaurant though because I'd just passed the most incredible municipal wild flower planting at the entrance to the town.