A Walk around Duiller

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Duiller is a small village of one thousand one hundred or so people. It is a town that you may cycle or drive through, without ever stopping. That is, unless you know about the lending library. Near the church there is a parking, and by that parking there is a shelter where there are bookshelves in German, French, English, Italian and one or two other languages.

The Jura Route (7) and Route du Vignoble de la Côte cross the village if you're on a bike. If you are on foot then you can walk to Arzier, Aubonne, Prangins, and Nyon. This village isn't part of a primary hiking route but if you're exploring a lesser known route then you can walk from Arzier to Nyon, or vice versa, to enjoy a linear hike that will take four and a half hours from Duiller to Arzier.

I often ride from Nyon, by the restaurant into Duiller, look at the books and then ride up towards Arzier before continuing. Yesterday I parked near the centre and walked through the village and found that it is bigger than I thought. By car and by bike we see two streets. On foot we explore.

The church has some old tomb stones placed into the wall. One for a person born in the 1700s and others for people who died in the 1800s. There is an old traditional stone house where a person is allowed to live there by the cats and where a "A home without a cat is just a house" or something to this effect.

I didn't follow the walking path up to Arzier. Instead I turned left to go back towards the main road. When I got to the road that passes over the motorway I avoided it and went down an agricultural path and walked along the motorway for a kilometre or two before turning back towards the lake.

There are some old trees along this walk that are wide and have numerous branches. I could have turned to walk towards Le Reposoir, and headed back to Nyon. As I had the car I turned back towards Duiller. There is a short climb and then you get back to the parking.

I see the loop that I did as a local hike. It's the type of walk that people who live in the village would do on a daily basis. I don't think that it is worth driving three hours to walk this walk, but 10-20 minutes is rational.

The loop I walked