Melly's Walk at the Chateau de la Hulpe

Today's group of walkers set out round the domaine of Solvay a bit fearful of the 'iffy' weather, but nonetheless with the usual WIC optimism. We managed the first half of the walk before the rain came. Luckily we were passing the Tavern de l'Homme Bleu when somebody with welcome initiative suggested that we have our coffee whilst it was raining. After drinks and in some cases bowls of hot soup, we set off for the second half of the walk and the rain kindly stayed away. At one stage a decision was made to try an untested route back to our parked cars. We travelled over a much less known part of the grounds with narrow woodland paths skirting open fields eventually bringing us to a great open expanse of saturated mud which was impossible to cross. The general consensus was to carry on rather than to turn back, so with Jane in the lead we set forth and without too much difficulty found our way to a regular path which brought us to our home base.

Thank you Melly.