254. Inn in autumn colors.

Also in Hachette, near the crossroads with the train, there were there is a place where the trains stop, you can find this little tourist café. With a terrasse. There were there is only forest and a few houses the trein stop only two times a day. A good place for those who want to go to the forest with their bicycles. In this café you could eat also for years the Tarte au Maroilles, a salt cake with the cow-cheese of the region the Maroilles. This cheese is very fat and has a strong smell and taste. Nowadays in this old inn you can only drink but no more eat.

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253. At the edge of the forest : the railway crossing.

The autumn is going to an end. The trees are becoming yellow and red. This is the crossing from the railway with the train Paris-Maubeuge (old line of Paris-Amsterdam and Paris-Köln- Berlin-Moscow) with the road coming out of the forest of Mormal from about which I wrote this last days, and going to Landrecies, another town of the Avesnois.
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251. Some highlights in the South East of the Forest.

I photographed this map on the sign-board here or there. On the South-East of the Forest, the river Sambre is flowing next along the edge of it. And also the railway - it was not a long time ago 10 years ago, before the TGV (high speed train) goes through Lille- on an important line between Paris and Bruxelles.

The places drawn in red are some highlights of the forest. In the North-east of the picture, the Auberge du Croisil, one of the few inns you can find in the forest and where you can eat very good local cooking "s meals.

The little place drawn in red is the Carrefour de l'Ermitage. The roads are very straight in the forest and the important crossroads have often six or eight branches with foot paths and roads for cars.

In the west of the picture, you see a big red square. It is a place with two highlights, the Etang David or David's pool and the Arboretum of the Etang David, a big tree collection where you can see this (click on the word this.)

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