Family Gap Year travel | Camino de Santiago Le Puy / Via Podiensis + Camino Frances
Waking up to a dry day is very welcome. Makes the spirits stay high. We get to use a vending machine for fresh baguettes as the boulangerie isn’t open, Tom and Nate think this is the greatest invention that mankind has achieved. They may be right.
Well we’ve had over a month of blistering hot weather and not a drop of rain has fallen. The ground is hard and dusty, lakes and rivers are low, streams are dry. At 6am this morning it starts pouring down and it doesn’t let up. The tents are soaked. We are soaked. There’s nothing in Mirmont and we have a schedule to keep so walking in the rain it is.
It’s a bit of a bust today, up the hill out of town and then it’s a drag down flat roads and 8 foot high fields of corn for blocking any views.
[Read more…] about Camino Day 38 – Aire sur l’Adour to Miramont-Sensacq
Le Presbytere where we have spent the night is really something special. We spent the night camped in the garden, but after a slow breakfast, (the boys almost need to be forcibly removed from a buffet) our hostess Marinette gives us a tour of the incredible building. When we finally get going the ground is flat and easy, not sure if it’s more our fitness or the terrain but it means the days are a little less of a challenge for most of us at least. Tom isn’t as interested at walking as he only wants to walk on tricky little singletrack trails which there are none of today, so I carry him the whole way. Lucky guy.
[Read more…] about Camino Day 37 – Lanne Soubiran to Aire sur l’Adour
Cloudy and foggy means it’s nice and cool. Staying at Gite Le Chalet du Bonheur last night means we get a little breakfast of fresh coffee, bread and homemade apricot jam.
[Read more…] about Camino Day 36 – Peyrot to Lanne Soubiran
Little bit longer today as we plan ahead to get enough kilometres to reach Aire sur l’Adour in a reasonable amount of time. Hot and humid but just rolling through the vineyards mostly. After 7kms we reach Lamothe and a buzzing little snack bar which we gratefully stop at.
[Read more…] about Camino Day 35 – Montreal du Gers to Peyrot
More days, more walking. Very similar terrain, mix of roads and off road tracks. Hot as buggery however and with no towns in between the start and finish means theres no water to keep us going. Tricky.
[Read more…] about Camino Day 34 – Condom to Montreal du Gers
Have to make a stop to visit the goats at the petting zoo again before heading out. Tom really doesn’t want to leave this one but leave we must. The Camino calls.