Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Champex > Le Chable

We started out after a nice leisurely morning. I updated the blog and then we packed our now dry clothes. We wakled through the town, by the lake, to the trail. We had a couple of glimpses of mountains and it promised to not rain on us. Todays walk was nothing but really steep down hill. We walked through fields and little villages to Sembracher. Along the waz we ran in to a man walking his two dogs, 1 puppy and 1 older one. We chatted about the weather and played with is puppy before moving on. We had planned to stop in Sembracher for lunch but took a wrong turn and instead stayed on the trail for Le Chable. When we figured out that we had taken a wrong turn it was too late to turn back so we split Kevin's Mars bar and headed up the trail. There was only one up hill section - Kevin made me count to 100 in french so the hill went by really fast.

When we got to Le Chable we stopped at the first restaurant that we found, which was a really nice place and our waiter was from Quebec. We chatted about the weather and where we were headed. After lunch we headed to our hotel in Villette (just across the river). We showered, did laundry and took a nice long nap. After the nap we wandered around town a little, bought some chocolate, new (better) gloves for me and then headed to the hotel restaurant-bar for a beer and fries. Alex and Paul showed up and we had dinner. Dinner was horse, i was full from the beer, fries and soup. I tried it anyway, it was chewy and really tasted a little like beef. Now I can say I have had it and don't need to have it again.

After dinner we headed to the two bars in town - Rosbef (an english bar) or Manhattan (an american one). Manhattan looked more lively so we went there and had a beer and played foosball. At ten we headed back to the hotel and went to bed.

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