Day 16 – Happy Feet Day Two

Figeac – Rest Day

We stayed in a nice hotel overlooking the river last night. I woke up this morning sprawled across our large comfy bed, not wanting to leave.

Feet complained they were still sore and demanded a rest day. Well, you can’t really argue with Feet. Without them, camino would be impossible.

So rest day is was, and rest is what we did. We spent the morning wandering around Figeac. We visited my sisters b&b to retrieve Susan’s glasses, but they couldn’t find them. They gave us her sticks though, said they didn’t want them cluttering their downstairs area.

As it’s Sunday, all the shops were shut, which was a shame as I need something to keep Feet happy. I’ve realised I need some sort of arch support, to stop Feet pronating.

I might try strapping them tomorrow, see if that stops them complaining. I know it sounds severe, but it’s not really a form of capital punishment, it’s just taping them for support.

We dined at the hotel restaurant again as it’s such a nice setting overlooking the river. Tonight we both had the confit de canard (duck) and again it was so delicious.

When we headed back up to our room, the key card didn’t work. Mike tried rubbing it on his trousers, I tried it on my merino top, we even tried farting on it, but nothing worked.

We’d been locked out of our room!

Anyway, the guy on reception reprogrammed it and it now works. Hope he washed his hands.