I cycled from Maumulon to
Mauprevoir yesterday afternoon: a pleasant 25 k round trip. I Googled the village and discovered that the name mauprevopir.com has been reserved on gandi.net and parked as unused. So no help there then. In fact no help anywhere it seems. But then when I arrived it didn't seem that Mauprevoir needed any help from the internet. It seems to be a thriving, if small, community in what must be one of the tidiest and prettiest villages in the Vienne. I hope that all the other pretty villages are not reading this. Don't think I need to worry. If I have a French reader other than someone I already know I'd be surprised.
Anyway I thought that whilst I was at it I'd have a play with
JogTracker the new app toy on my phone. A click
here (if you do want to open it I suggest you do so in a new tab) will show you my journey and a map - I hope.
I had an excellent coffee at Le Diament bar. The English proprietors are working on it to open a café/restaurant in the New Year and to add letting bedrooms.
In the meantime here are some of the (inevitable) photos I took:
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| The Chateau of Mauprevoir. |
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| The Church of St Impère, a 225m2 structure with Gothic windows. |
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| The Village centre with the bar |
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| A window over the River Payroux |
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| A touch of New Zealand's habit of painting pictures on any structure that stands still long enough. In this case the bus stop and public convenience |
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| The Marie and Bibliotèque |
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| The inevitable Pétanque terraine |
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| On the way back |
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| The last few hundred metres |
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| 'Home' |
