walk

 Having walked roughly seven thousand six hundred steps for the morning walk stop a the bakery. Wait five minutes until they have dealt with the previous customer and buy three croissants and three bread rolls for breakfast. Perhaps the family will accept this today. The woman counts properly and charges less than at the other bakery last week. 

There are another one thousand one hundred and fifty seven steps until home. Walk through the town, the town which is now filling up with tourists in the fine weather. Take the back way around the church, through the graveyard. There is a young family there, the children playing between the trees.

Take the breakfast things into the sitting room, clear the table, and make a small breakfast table with butter and the bakery wares, and knives for everybody two small pots of jam.

Three empty cups beside the espresso machine, make one, leave the others there so that each person can make a cup of coffee to their own taste.

Breakfast is a success, the two still in their night clothes and the other one in a sweat having walked nearly seven kilometres for the sake of exercise.

The rolls and croissants are better than those from the baker's shop in the centre of town. They have a flavour of their own, and do not have the taste of an overheated reheat oven as the others frequently do.

The walks in the morning are a good thing, even if the body is tired afterwards. It is relaxing to rest when you are tired.