David and Rosemary joined us for our first walk with the U3A
Wednesday Wanderers
They meet twice a month and offer easy to moderate
walks. We expected a stroll, but in
fact the pace was similar to our Monday walks.
This week’s walk was from Jalon to the Donkey
Sanctuary. We have not done this
particular walk before, but have followed the path from Jalon when doing the
Col de Rates walk with our Monday group.
We have eaten at the Donkey Sanctuary three or four times in
the past. It is a very popular place to
take visitors, with its comfortable open air dining and long views over the
valley to the coast. Great place to
spend a long afternoon with a very
reasonable Menu del Dia
So we were disappointed to hear that it had closed to the
general public. They now only offer
meals to members on an annual subscription of 120 Euros. Quite expensive if you only wanted the
occasional meal there
The area was much cleaner and tidier than I remember it from
our last visit. Perhaps the absence of
daily visitors to dine gave them more time to work on the facilities. And, as always, the donkeys looked happy and
well cared for.
We were met at the entrance by the “guard dog”, who seemed
very pleased to have a group of strangers to make a fuss of him.
Despite being closed to the general public, the owners provided
very reasonable soft drinks and allowed us to sit and admire the views.
We enjoyed our first walk with the Wednesday Wanderers, who
we found to be a very friendly and welcoming group. We shall certainly join them again, and
hopefully find more delights like the Donkey Sanctuary.
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