The weather has cleared out and it’s a blazing summer day. Blisters are the limiting factor today so we don’t plan on a big one. Our extra effort yesterday walking through town to the campsite meant we’ve got a little headstart which is a bit of a bonus.
We slowly roll up through Le Chaze, finding another of the perfectly maintained petite chapels en route and then into Lasbros where, contradicting the guidebook, we find a restaurant. An unexpected find, we celebrate with a heavy burger/steak/ fish and chip lunch at a newish snack bar. Nate somehow orders a massive steak and manages to devour it all. Tom spends most of his time adding tomato sauce to the fries on his plate. Alissa despairs.
Once past Lasbros we aren’t sure how far we can go with Alissa’s feet being the handbrake, but the trail is amazing, it propels us on. It’s a rolling single track through farmland with low stone walls marking the paddocks. Easy, easy going and really beautiful most of the way especially after Le Quatre Chemin. The boys try to complain but the reality is it takes no time to get to Finieyrols.
As you come in to Finieyrols there is a sign that lists the ten commandments of the Camino, apparently not all pilgrims are careful with their waste and the residents are sick of it. We’re just happy to have reached our destination after an awesome day, we check out one of the local gites (le rose d’Aubrac) and find no room at the inn. Instead they direct us to a little picnic area where we wild camp for the night. The town is very small and we would probably have got a better reception at the larger gite on the entry to town but we have our tents and food so we figure no great loss.
In fact it’s a perfect spot, running water, loos and a picnic table, what more could one ask for in a free camp. We hit up the gite for a drink anyway, chat to a group with kids noisier than ours, always a good feeling, strength in numbers and all that. From what we gather they’re a holiday program of some sort, travelling with a donkey (Tom is in his element), once again they’re walking for 10 days, it’s a bit of a common theme.
Anyway we head back, set up our tents, the boys get to work on their daily journal and we relax. Today’s been a good day. We’re beginning to enjoy this thing.
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