We already know that this area around Lalinde in the Dordogne is a paradise for walkers and hikers.
Chateau Lalinde hosted a group of 15 from Iceland this past week, who go to a different place every year to cycle or walk and hike. This being the tenth anniversary of the group's annual outing, they decided to come to Lalinde and stay at Chateau Lalinde.
We organised bikes for them with Jean Paul at Apolo, and they spent each day either walking and/or hiking in the area -- doing anything from 20 to 80 kilometres in a day.
The unanimous verdict is that 'this is the best place to cycle and hike of anywhere they had been -- the variety and choice of routes and diversity of sites to see and things to do on the way, including finding delightful little restaurants for lunch or a refreshment on the way, was incomparable!'
So it was with pleasure that I read the following article in the Sud Ouest recently:
Finally, 260 km of marked footpaths in 13 communes of outer Périgueux, “la Communauté d’agglomération périgourdine” (CAP), have been completed. The footpaths, which are either existing ones or those that have been created, are split into 26 circuits of varying lengths (from 2 - 17 km). They are open to walkers, bicycles and even horses. In each commune the starting point is marked in the centre of town (mairie or church). The footpaths are marked posts with yellow caps. To link from one circuit to another the walker needs to follow the green posts. Guides explaining the whole network will be available later in the year. The footpaths are in addition to those that run along the banks of the river Isle.
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