Marche On

I did another walk yesterday, with the our delightful Canadian neighbours, and Amelia came along too this time. It was longer, at 20km, (we didn't really realise this until we were there) and also about one million times hillier. I don't really mind the hills, but the descent can be a bugger. Do people still think that walking downhill is easier than up? It's really not. And your knees HATE it.

It was also kind of muggy and humid but I won't go on about it.

(These horses had bells around their necks for some reason. Possibly they have leprosy.)

It was altogether a more interesting walk than before, with some AMAZING views, and a lot more in the way of the animal kingdom. We saw loads of cats and dogs (most farm dogs are very good guard dogs, but slightly frightening to walk past), horses, cows, ponies, sheep, goats and donkeys. And a quite high degree of fly clouds. We saw very few people.

It's nice to learn about Canada. I find the Quebecois language (dialect?) even tougher to understand than normal French (it's kind of French in an American accent), but interestingly, they're way bigger on keeping the language (dialect?!) a bit purer because they all 'already know English', so they make up new words all the time. Like in France, 'email' is 'email'. In Quebec, 'email' is 'courielle', which I think is a pretty word. Also, Canada has like half the population of the UK, and ALL THE SPACE. Admittedly, a lot of that space is pretty cold and has bears in it, but, basically, what I'm trying to say is, I slightly want to move to Canada now. (This is almost certainly a phase.)

(These lines help mark out the way for pilgrims. They also help to make some excellent 'treeface'.

Anyway, here are some pictures from yesterday. I started using my camera but then it ran out of battery and I used my phone. These are just the phone pictures for now, but I will upload the camera ones at some point today.