A late night drive down to Dover, quick beer and a nap on the ferry and a foggy drive through northern France saw us rock up at Maisonbleau Sunday morning.... and ready for bed!
But, with not a single drop of moisture falling from the sky(!), there was only time for a quick power nap before heading off to one of the local crags - Boissy-aux-Cailles - to hunt down a quality little slab named Les Nombrilistes (recently featured on the excellent Unclesomebody.com production 'L'Etranger' - check it out if you’re in need of Font-flavoured SYKE).
‘Course, you're never long in Font without some sort of reminder of just how fickle the forest can be sometimes, and after two hours of traipsing round trails, apparently trodden only (disturbingly recently from the looks of it) by wild boar, we decided to admit defeat before the dark crept in, and head back to the gite to get some beta for the walk in next time.
Apparently we were practically stood on top of it without realising it - but at least we’ll get there next time, and I still have skin for my first proper day after resting up tonight - bonus!
Not sure where we'll be off to tomorrow. I'm going to try and approach this trip with as little planning and expectation as possible. We’ll go where the weather dictates and climb what the body and the skin allows.
I've come here with a huge list of problems to try, either recommended by friends, or scouted out on Bleau.info whilst waiting for my impending redundancy, and most of them are at the upper end of the achievability scale. But it's just a list of possibilities.
At the end of the day i’m just here to relax and enjoy the forest. But hopefully the months of winter training will pay off and there'll be the odd pleasant surprise along the way. We'll have to wait and see.
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