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)

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".