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<\/p>\nN<\/b>asbinsals to l’estrade – 24 kms<\/b><\/p>\n
Steps: 47913<\/p>\n
I had to drag myself out of bed this morning. 27 kms the previous day was way too much. I felt I could do with a rest day, but Mike cracked the whip on me and told me to get out of bed.<\/p>\n
It was 9am by the time we left the hotel, and 9.25 by the time we had picked up our supplies and were on the road. The biggest mistake I made this morning was skipping coffee.<\/p>\n
‘It’s only 2 hours to Aubrac,’ I said to Mike.<\/p>\n
Two hours later we’re still plodding through fields of cow shit, desperately needing coffee.<\/p>\n
We passed about 5 people who had stopped for a rest and walked into the next paddock where a bull stood, blocking our path.<\/p>\n
‘Let’s wait for the others, safety in numbers and all that,’ I said.<\/p>\n
We looked back at them as they laid out their picnic blanket and brought out their coffee flask.<\/p>\n
‘They’ll be ages,’ Mike said.<\/p>\n
So we plodded on towards the bull, the jaws theme song drumming through my head, convinced it wasn’t going to end well. Thankfully as we got closer it moved away.<\/p>\n
Finally, after 3 hours of walking, we arrived in the small picturesque town of Aubrac. A cafe appeared on the corner like an oasis in the desert. Desperately hoping it wasn’t a mirage, I said bonjour to all the other walkers we’d met on the road, and took a seat.<\/p>\n
A man who looked just like Dad, brought me the best tasting coffee I have ever had.<\/p>\n
With a new lease of life, we walked to the next town, but all the hotels and gites were full.<\/p>\n
We had no choice but the push on to the same gite my sisters stayed at the previous evening.<\/p>\n
We wandered through a large forest. A camp fire had been laid out beside a stream, inviting campers to camp there. A bit further along, a man had his tarp stretched between trees snd he was curled up underneath in a hammock.<\/p>\n
‘Bugger that,’ I said to Mike.<\/p>\n
It was a slow slog and seemed to take forever. I sang songs, trying to distract from the pain in my feet. Everything hurt. I wondered how my sisters could do such high mileage and not hate it, because the last hour of the walk today I hated it so much. I wished I was that guy in the hammock.<\/p>\n
Finally, after a painful walk down a boring country road, then through some more mud, we made it to the gite, where I collapsed on a heap on the floor.<\/p>\n
Dinner was amazing. Vege soup followed by beef stew followed by cheese the dessert then some wickedly strong schnapps.<\/p>\n
We’ve been so lucky to have had rooms to ourselves since leaving our sisters and this is the first night sharing with others. I’m writing this from a dorm of 4 people, all of whom are snoring. Probably no sleep for me tonight.<\/p>\n
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Nasbinsals to l’estrade – 24 kms Steps: 47913 I had to drag myself out of bed this morning. 27 kms the previous day was way too much. I felt I could do with a rest day, but Mike cracked the … Continue reading