Day 43 - Bucey les Gy to Besancon

Another beautiful sunny day and another long walk of 34 km. There was a lot more shade to be had on the Path, and that was a relief. I had a deer run ahead of me on a track with a rock wall on one side and a steep drop on the other (poor thing, I obviously gave it a fright), my 5th sighting so far, and this was very close. And, yesterday, I saw something that could have been a muskrat (considered a pest here) just on the other side of the fence in a field. Besancon is very different from every other French city I have visited. It is very modern and fresh and appears to be a university town.Read more