Reise, Reise

It's much, much better to enjoy freedom when your legs and feet are ready to enjoy it)) so I went yesterday as far as Lainville-en-Vexin making a 25km circle and was back home not completely worn out.  Only yesterday I noticed the Saint Jacob's sign at Oinville-sur-Montcient: the pilgrims moving from Haarlem to Santiago de Compostella go through this village too.  I said to myself how strange that I did not pay attention to the sign earlier... There were still many people in the fields. Many cars, extremely noisy motorcyclists training in the Domaine Forest Hill in front of Lainville. And again, I wondered HOW the locals had accepted that their beautiful silent landscapes were pull apart with the motorbikes! Still I felt much better than the first time here after the lockdown one week ago. (find info and write about the Château de Oinville)

It's the Indian summer here in Paris. I've stayed THREE weeks in the city without my long walks in the fields 40 km from it: it was raining, and I had to finish my dissertation and to send it to my professors. Yesterday, though, I went there. Coming back to the fields is like listening to eternity. Nothing changes, almost no movement, no people for sure. There's a striking difference between urban noise and serenity of nature. You also can feel the purity of its air. And if your eyes get used to beauty so that you are not able to amire it with the same intensity, silence for your ears would always be a great and precious surprise. You have to make breaks. Hear silence. This is our mental and bodily hygene. A road from Oinville to La Chartre, 12 oct 2019 This week I managed to spend 40 euros on food. That's about 5 euros per day. My colleague asks me why I don't eat with them at the restaurant. 'Cause it's expensive. - How much? - It's not the quest...

Un coup d’œil sur la Normandie Jamais, jamais, ou presque, n'écoutez pas votre fatigue, parce que souvent c'est la paresse qui se dissimule sous la masque de la fatigue. Un des weekends, j'ai décidé de me promener à pied, sans la trottinette, pour ne pas faire des efforts. J'ai choisi la chaussée Jules César comme lieu de la promenade, tout près du rail et des gares ; la journée était froide, nuageuse, avec pourtant quelques éclaircies mais aussi du vent du nord. La chaussée va tout droit à Rouen, mais j'ai réussi de me tromper du chemin trois fois. Finalement, je suis rentrée encore plus fatiguée et insatisfaite, et toute la semaine suivante m'a paru une pesanteur insupportable, je me traînais à peine d'un lieu à l'autre, du jour au jour, jusqu'au samedi. La météo promettait le dimanche ensoleillé, et, à l'accueil de la bibliothèque, devant un grand écran que j'aime bien et beaucoup, je me suis mise à l'étude de ma prochaine destinat...

21 September. The weather was hot, dry and sunny, I was eager to run away from the big city bits. Although I'm mostly sitting in Paris, sitting looks like running. I need to stop, and a walk that lasts for 6 hours is a goood looong stop, as long as 25 kilometers' walk. I started from Juziers, as you already know, and continued till Lainville-en-Vexin, village were I realized this time that the chaos in my head flew away. I was finally here. I didn't make a circle to come back to Juzi ers, but went further to Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies and, via Vienne-en-Arthies, arrived finally to Vétheuil. Last time I was here at the end of November 2018. All the way between Lainville and Vétheuil I wondered where all the people are. As if I were the only walker in the vast space of Vexin. But Vétheuil was rather too noisy, lots of people, lots of changes. Summer was still there, and everyone enjoyed drinks at the local Tabac near the bus stop. I prefer, though, the closer-to-winter we...

This is perhaps the most beautiful, quiet and long (25 km) route not far from Paris for the one who loves grandes espaces… One summer day, I thought if it were possible to reach Vétheuil from Juziers. Yes, it was, phisically. But I worked also every Saturday, while the only possibility to go to Vétheuil was that one could come back home only taking a bus from this charmful village. The last bus from Vétheuil every weekend is at 16.45 pm on Saturday. As Sunday is usually the only day for my randonnées, I did not have this bus option. There are no busses at all in Vexin on Sunday. Now however I can escape from Paris on Saturday and on Sunday, and thanks gods autumn this year was dry. So the last Saturday I walked from Juziers to Montalet-le-Bois, and then reached Lainville-en-Vexin. This part of the trip was extremely quiet, there was no one except me, neither cyclists (perhaps because of the « gilets jaunes » manifestation), nor hunters. The blue sky is closer here, on t...

Place number one in Vexin Français. Absolutely THE must see and feel.

Les Écuries du château à Rueil-Seraincourt

Hérouville, château. #DavidBowie #EltonJohn

Festival du Vexin...

As far as I know, there is no name given to the chemin that embraces the southern sortie/exit of the village, and no maps that would mark the spot with an asterisk "panorama", "worth seeing", "beautiful view".

Il y a presque un an.

Dès le mi-mai jusqu'à presque la fin du septembre, deux lignes de Baladobus circulent entre Pontoise et les villages principaux du Vexin Français le dimanche. J'ai pris un pour Ambleville pour aller plus loin, en Normandie. Château-sur-Epte et Fours-en-Vexin étaient mes destinations. Le seul bus de retour à 17h22 n'est pas venu là où je l'attendais, près d'une sortie/entrée du Domaine de Villarceaux, Chaussy. Le plus possible, il ne me fallait pas courir par la D171 et la Haute Borne, mais trouver un arrêt du bus dans le village de Chaussy. Heureusement, j'ai eu de la chance en faisant du stop : un couple des retraités m'a ramenée en voiture jusqu'à la gare des Mureaux. Ambleville Château d'Ambleville Vieux pont d'Aveny Château d'Aveny Berthenonville Berthenonville A l'approche de Château-sur-Epte Château-sur-Epte, village Entre Berthenonville et...