Herresbach

Was in a small village next to Manderfeld, called Herresbach in the Ardenne at the border with Germany for the weekend.

It has been a long time since I remembered how dark a night was (after the time where VN has got some better technology to use water enery producing electricity otherwise before that once a week, we did not have electricity). I could not see a thing, not even the face of the person to whom we talk, only if they smile, you will probably see the shade of their teeth. Walking in the dark, on a long, empty, quiet road reminded me of all the ghost stories that I heard when I was young, something like "there was a young girl who died, because she died young, and had not lived a full life, her soul could not vanish, she could reincarnate into the next, so she stayed on the big bamboo tree, and every night, she appeared like a woman, asking for a lift, only the people who gave a lift, when they passed the bamboo, they would see a woman with very long hair, wearing a long white dress..."Brbrbr, even as I am writing this, it still gives me shivers. I was quite happy when there was from time to time, a flash light of a car passing by at the same time I was praying that it would not stop next to me, and inside there would be a man without the head ;-)).

But walking in the village during the night was great, the air was pure, there was only a "smell of countryside"-a mix of bullshit, hay, grass...and because it was so dark, that you could enjoy looking at the stars, then the sounds of bugs...a sort of silent that we don't have in big city.

The next two days, trekking from one village to another through the pine forest (took less than 2h to trek 12 km, taking into account 7kg of backpack, climbing small hills), there were many kinds of pines, even the one that we use to decorate for Xmas. The water was very clean, it was not hard like those in city with a lot of calcium. When you drink it, it tastes better than any of the brands for water that we find in the supermarket.

It was a healthy weekend.