Gorgeous gorge

The morning we were leaving Annecy, Sara texted me to ask if we fancied visiting a gorge on the way home. It sounded like a great idea to have a little walk, before our four hour journey home, especially as there was a café, so a good place for a coffee stop. I need to admit at this point that she had sent me a link, which I had not viewed. Big mistake!

The gorge was only about 30 muinutes from Annecy, and on our way home. We descended the steps to the café area, had coffee, and then bought our tickets. I should probably have wondered at this point ‘What are we paying for?’, as you wouldn’t normally pay to walk along a gorge. The walk started very prettily with some stunning views of the river that had created it.

Only moments later though, I realised the walk was not along the bottom of the gorge, but halfway up it, and it was pretty deep.

It was, in fact, all the things I’m not great with: heights, walkways at height (that you can see through), height within a closed space, closed spaces.

I could hear the others behind me chatting and taking photos, with lots of ‘Oohs’ and ’Aahs’. Me, I just wanted to get round it all and back onto terra firma, but it seemed to take an age. There were parts of the supported walkway that narrowed around outcrops of rock with overhangs, these were particularly scary for me. All I could do was just keep going, but soon I realised people were coming back the way I’d just come. ‘Oh crikey’, I realised, I’m going to have to come back the same way!

At the finish I’d like to say it was lovely, and I’m sure it was, but for me, I was just happy to be back in the car and on our way again.