Dormans to Chateau Thierry then Ferte..

Well I’m glad we decided to go see the Dormans War Memorial, it remembers the first and second battle of the Marne that took place in 1918, it’s a stunning building a cross between a church and a museum and in nice surroundings. It was built in the grounds of the Dormans Chateau which also houses a renovated water mill, sadly closed due to Covid. From Dormans we continued roughly west, I do mean roughly the river is getting very bendy now and we’ve tried almost all the compass bearings over the last two days. We stopped for the night in Chateau-Thierry, loads of swans here no idea why, where we mooched through town and saw the old Hotel Dieu and walked up to the Castle ruins. After a peaceful night, I mention this because in Dormans we were a bit too close to the railway tracks, we continued on after a quick shopping stop in Charly to La Ferte sous Jouarre this is at km90 on the Marne which is 178km long so not far to go to reach Paris. It’s been another scorcher today and we are plucking up the courage to walk into town as our thermometers are reading 30 deg C at 16:45!Read more