2017-04-16 Chanax - Yenne (21/193 km)

After breakfast at the worn down hotel the road went up through the alleys of Chanax actually a very small place. Passed the old mill built at one of the streams coming down from the hills.

The last houses of the village went by and soon there were fields and grooves around me. Passed three girls and exchanged some words with them. They were from Geneva and spoke French. And my French is not the very best. A little later a passed a man looking to be in his fifties. Also from the area around Geneva. He could speak a little English but I sensed that he preferred to walk alone. More small villages and a crossroad. I took the over the hill variant.

At the top of the hill there was a small chapel where once it had been a statue and perhaps a place of worship of Sylvan, the Roman forest god. But that statue was removed in the 5th century. Had a little to eat from my backpack. And then the track went down the hill. Very steep down!! I had to take out and use my telescope pole that proved to very useful here. My handbook actually warned for taking this route during rain since it could be dangerous. But I made it eventually.

A fine walk along the river followed.

Passed under a road and there was Yenne. I had decided to walk to the monastery. Difficult to find so I set down to figure out how I could find it by using the maps and the directions of my mobile. Then I realized that I had walked in the wrong direction for a while and the alternative pilgrim marking - a shell with an additional dot - did not show the direction to the monastery but an alternative route onward.

Well I did find the monastery and pushed the button at the front porch. Nothing happened. So I went away and back to the center of small Yenne. Found the only hotel that was open. However no possibility to eat there so it had to be a kebab at the only open place at the square. Returning to the hotel I passed the two German guys that I had met a couple of days before. Exchanged some words with them. They did also stay at the hotel that they said was "the only". Then I continued to the hotel. Rather tired for some reason. Phoned home and had a possibility to talk to Amelie. But the only thing she said was hello then she only listened. A phone is a mystical thing when you only are two.

En la cima de unos de las colinas después Chanaz estaba una capilla. En la antigüedad había sido el sito de una estatua de Sylvanus (Silvano) el espíritu tutelar del bosque. Un poco después la senda muy escarpada descendía la pendiente alta. Muy difícil con piedras y barro. Mi bordón telescópico fui muy útil. Más o menos imposible cuando está lluviendo. En la Semana Santa mucho estaba cerrado en Francia. También el monasterio en Yenne. Por esto, el hotel otra vez, el hotel único. Encontré otra vez los dos hombres de Alemania fuera una cafetería cerca de hotel.