It’s one of those good days when we are up and firing on all cylinders early which means we can chew through the kilometers early.
A quick drag back from St Cirq to Bouzies along the tow path is knocked out before breakfast which is a bonus. There’s a little epicerie in Bouzies run by a good guy with good bread and all the stuff you need to get through a day.
It’s a gentle walk out of Bouzies which ends at a stiff climb for a few kilometers to the ridge tops. Not long after that you arrive in Pasturats which doesn’t have much except for a gite and a closed church. If it was hotter it would be a difficult water day as there isn’t much around at all. Some online guides say the GR36 between Bouzies and Vers is lightly used and hard to follow but we found no trouble getting from A to B.
The boys are doing great, Max carries his load as well as extras, Nate always pushes himself to do more. Tom has totally gotten used to the routine of backpack and walking and verbalizing what he wants to do. We can do the distance with Tom as long as we start early, after 2.30pm or so it just becomes too bigger wedge of his day.
Stopping for a bit of lunch on the hill above Pasturats we roll on and then down the steep hill into Bears ( where there’s not much) and then in to the much busier and prettier town of Vers with a nice and simple municipal campground and an actual open and well stocked epicerie. Dinner is taken early at a food van which is (incredibly for France) open at 5pm. Everything is knocked out before 7pm which is almost a miracle. A camino miracle.
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