Right, Jeff’s foot is recovering well after his ‘bunion’ operation (don’t tell him I called it a bunion – technically it wasn’t but it’s easier than explaining what it really was) and so we ventured out for a little walk around Lisle. I say ‘little’ with tongue in cheek, it was about 12 km and to be honest because we’re both a bit unfit it was a km or 2 too far. It was a lovely pleasant sunny day though – about 16ºc.

I haven’t got a map for this walk… but starting from the centre ville we seen the map sign and headed headed up the hill until we came across the first yellow post (they do work eh). Following a track through a lovely shaded wood (a gentle gradient rise uphill).

I was soooo keen to get going I completely forgot to take a few shots around Lisle for my blog so the first one is of Ruben off the lead on the walk. I’ll get some Lisle shots another day and post them here.

The wooded path bought us out at the top of the hill with panormic views across the countryside

As I said earlier we were both quite unfit and Jeff used this ‘bus stop’ shack to take a rest for 5.   Ruby enjoyed a good bit of ’stick throwing & catching’ while we took in the views!

And here’s a rare picture of the pair of us taken using the automatic timer…

Both well recovered we headed off towards a hamlet called La Martinie which was very pretty with some lovely old houses.

Passing through the hameau a little further on we came across this rather overgrown Lavoir…

It’s just outside another little Hameau called Le Bournat.  That wasn’t the most interesting thing on this walk though…  What do you make of this…

According to all the signs around it was a self proclaimed ‘Cyber Nuklear Farm du PERIGORD’. It looked really spooky, like something out of the movie ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ where some forgotten folks have created their own little world. There was loads of ’stuff’ lying about either side of the lane – looked like a really eccentric inventor may live here. There was a website listed on the ‘blue sign’ and I’ve tried all different permitations in my browser but can’t get it to work – it reads ‘http://www.nuklearkhaOSGROUP.COM’.

Whilst we were walking past, a young ‘hippie style’ guy with dreadlocks came across the lane and said something but when I replied that my French wasn’t very good he said in really good English “don’t worry about the dogs barking, they can’t get out”… whoooa, like I said spooky!!! Actually he seemed quite nice, at least he was smiling and not hiding an axe behind him. It really was fascinating and I’d love to know more… who is he & what’s it all about? If anyone knows please put me out of my misery and tell.

We dragged ourselves away and moved along… the path ran alongside the D2 main road for a short while before coming into another little Hamlet with farm animals where I took this lovely shot of a goose and a black hen…

We rested again just after this and had a little picnic.

Have you ever know a dog eat apple before…

Well, that’s it for another day…. See you next time!