2017-04-22 Clonaz-sur-Varèze - Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette (30 / 370 km)

Breakfast at the hotel. Ava joined and we passed over the plain not far from the nuclear power plant.

A long bridge across Rhône and soon into the city of Chavanay, that seem to be a nice place at the hillside. We had some coffee and did some shopping there before we crossed the small river and got up to a small stony track up the hill to the known Chapelle du Calvarie. A fine place with a view.

A lot of small villages that were growing wine, apples and other fruit. We were at the side of the Pilate natural reserve and were gradually entering the "Massif Central" area, a very hilly and mountainous area.
We encountered a man who said he had met a girl that we might know. It proved to be Ava that was sitting waiting for us a bit further on.

We continued across many hills, villages and small cities. Upwards, upwards. Passed a German couple that also were making their way upwards. The woman seemed to have problems to walk the stony path. In good German we understood that they were almost neighbors to Paul and Robert (some 30 km away). But the couple walked slowly due to the problems of the woman so we passed them.

The four musketeers stopped for a food break at the ridge with a view, before continuing downhill down and into the small city of St-Julien-Molin-Molette.

Well into the city we realized that we had to walk to the camping site just outside the city. We got lodging in a big portable house, a cottage, but had to walk down to the city center to get something to eat. On the way up and down we passed the old factory for knives and other similar edge tools. This used to be a manufacturing city. But today the old factory building seemed to be a place for various non-commercial activities.

The evening contained a lot of singing together in the cottage van. A really pleasant night.

Pasando una central nuclear y después el puente del Rhône llegamos a Chavanay y su Chapel du Calvarie continuábamos a través de aldeas, viñas y huertos a lado de Pilate. Entrabamos la Massif Central, una región poco poblada, montañosa, con viejos vulcanos, bosques etc. El día terminaba en St-Julien-Molin-Molette con más cantando en un camping fuera la pequeña ciudad.