Mon., Aug. 31st Paulette's Tourinnes-La-Grosse Walk

Today Paulette led us on a new walk in Tourinnes-La-Grosse which was about a 45 minute drive for some of us coming from downtown Brussels. All 15 of us though finally assembled at the appointed meeting spot near the church of Saint-Martin under shady trees. It was a hot weather summer day with temperatures reaching up to 29C however with occasional breezes we managed to make our way around the planned route. Although the pictures do not show it much of the walk was over open fields. Jennifer who provided the gps route/Google map of the walk indicated that we did 6.51 kilometers in 1 hour 57 minutes and expended 366 calories which was not bad considering the heat ...