Le Grand France and Germany camping trip- 30 days wild walk day 1- Vagney walk and more waterfalls

Hello there!

I left you with a large dish of pasta in my last holiday post. We had a fairly good night's sleep at our camp site Campsite Du Mettey.  In the morning, since we were the only people at the campsite, I asked if I could use the natural swimming pool, filtered by plants!

It was quite cold, but wonderfully refreshing.  CBC and WKWTTG were too wussy to join me.

After this, we set off to the Super U to go and get some food to make a picnic.  3 blocks of cheese were bought (?!?!!) and were put into sandwiches with bread from the lovely Boulangerie in town and we set off through the woods from the campsite

I was walking with Little Red Riding Hood.

As it was the first day of #30 days wild, I made a real effort to try and look closely for any interesting natural features and enjoy the outdoors!

I found the way the branches poked out of this tree at almost right-angles fascinating!

Pine cones were a prominent feature of this journey!

This leafy moss/growth was interesting too. Does it have a name?

I thought I'd leave a pine cone message for those who passed here.

I always love seeing little holes and burrows and like to think of the pixies who have passed through! Maybe Silkie came through here on her way to the Faraway Tree!?

As a child, I was always so excited to see Oak leaves. Who am I kidding, I STILL am!

We reached a beautiful view point which gave us a great view of the town of Vagney

I do love walks that go through woodlands. There is something so calming about that dappled light and that air that is so full of new oxygen as it were (as in just given out by the trees!)

We did lark about here...

We noticed the shape of the barriers was a bit like the front of a boat soo....

Leo and Kate moment!

We had a bit of a Leo and Kate moment!

CBC thought it would be easy to climb the rock below the viewing point. WKWTTG and I were telling him he was dangerous!

I saw this evergreen which looked like it was doing rap-hands so I joined it like a total Div!

The journey continued onwards and I searched for sights.

Saw these bizarre fungi that looked like aubergines when CBC cooks them.

We stopped and had a large picnic at one of the handy tables at a viewing point!

Later on, further into the woods, we saw an epic ant hill and I tried to photograph the industrious workers!

I stopped to look at these pretty, delicate bulbous flowers. Name please? They're not Borage are they?

We spotted this moth and it made a beeline (mothline?) for CBC's boots.

More wild flowers.

And a very friendly pony!

We had been heading towards the signs of Cascades des Bouchots and here they were...

I'll leave you to look at beautiful cascading water...

 Red riding Hood decided to climb.

 The Big Bag Tim decided to leap...

 I climbed round the edge towards the water.

There were smaller cascades further along the path.

These buttercups looked like they were oozing with butter!

And this looked like an enchanted giant.

On our way back, we saw this interesting cottage.

And I found a Stag Beetle I think! I named him Gregor!

The last stage of the woods had an interesting outdoor gym.There were about 16 different pieces of wooden equipment.

Of course, I was the one who fell flat on my face, scraped all my knees so they bled and hurt my wrists as I slipped on the stepping stone style planks of wood.


It was certainly a wonderful walk, despite the slippage and the intense need for the loo! Certainly was a great start to 30 days wild!

Only really 1 day to go left in my holiday narrative! Are you glad it will be over?!

xx