Before breakfast
this morning Kate called me to go and get Bella from outside – she
had been let out to relieve herself and taken off up the road after
another dog. It was a glorious morning, sunny and crisp, so after I
had retrieved the dog, I grabbed my camera and headed out to try to
find a good spot to photograph some snow-covered trees above the
house. I failed, but as I walked further and further along the road,
other scenes revealed themselves and I must have been out for almost
an hour in the end.
I met a few other
people on the road as I walked – mostly dog walkers - and as I
headed back to the house I noticed someone dressed slightly oddly
coming towards me. Le Mont-Pèlerin is home to the Rabten Choeling
Centre for Higher Tibetan Studies, which is also a Buddhist
monastery, and this was my first meeting with one of the local monks.
Our discovery of the centre helped to explain why so many houses in
the village have Buddhist prayer flags hanging from them (or as Kate
calls it, Himalayan bunting).
After breakfast, we
took Bella out for walk, going back up the road I had walked up in
the morning and then looping back through the forest.
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