Saturday May 7th. Up, breakfasted and off on our way by 9.00 feeling a little apprehensive about this steep climb from the bridge. It’s described as the ‘passage sportif’ and you are strongly warned against it. We though, were not going to be put off and didn’t remember it being that bad. We walked through the town with purpose and remembered our route from the last time and then there was the bridge and a couple of walkers ahead. We wanted to have a photo taken to mark the event and were trying to decide who to ask when a [...]
The blip before the start.
Teresa is off in the Peak District doing a sponsored walk but is not well so is walking the shorter as opposed to longer route, I know she’ll be disappointed. I went over on my foot yesterday and am keeping my fingers crossed that the discomfort doesn’t develop further. I have a 7/8 mile walk tomorrow to try it out on. We’re off on Thursday and I’ve just been familiarising myself with the section we’re about to walk – Cahors to Lectoure, I got a little shock to realise that the first day is 19.4 miles, that will be an [...]
Look out Camino, here we come.
The next section is now booked, how exciting is that? Teresa and I head out (from Gatwick this time) to fly to Toulouse on May 5th to walk the next part of this fabulous trail. Our trip sees us start with an overnight in Toulouse and much of the next day there too due to plane and train times but this gives us a chance to relax and explore a new city for both of us. No doubt wine, food and coffee will play it’s part as we wander the streets of this Southern French city. Then in the late [...]
Food for thought….
This blog has sporadic postings mainly because much as Teresa and I would love to be walking it continuously, life dictates that we do it in sections and at present that means once a year. So as the next section beckons, I fund myself re-reading all the past postings and experiencing many emotions. There was relief that 3 sections in we have never had to drown each other out with those ipods mentioned in blog number one. Joy and hilarity as just reading words and looking at photos reminded me of the great times and the funny things that had [...]
Bus, not sure, taxi???
At the moment all is organised except getting from Cahors at the end of the walk back to Rodez for the flight. Now, I’ve been told that there’s one bus at 3.00 so if we get that, the flight is long gone especially as it takes over 2 hours!! Teresa has been given so other information, although as I write, I’m not sure what. Fingers crossed. I’ve been told that we need to go the night before but of course we can’t and I suppose had we known this, we could have booked an extra day but too late now [...]
I need some direction
Took some time out this morning to go into central London so that I could visit the Rail Europe Offices and talk to a real person about my options regarding travel in France, yes, this is a follow on from yesterdays post…or was it a rant? Anyhow, found it no problem and there were no queues, yes, this was going my way. Ten minutes later and it was all over and I had little more info than when I’d looked on the net. You can’t book tickets until 90 days before you travel but that also means that you can’t [...]
Frustration.
World Walks - http://www.worldwalks.com/france.aspx have confirmed dates etc and deposit is paid but both Teresa and I are finding organising the travel a nightmare and it’s amazing how quickly you forget as Teresa has just reminded me that this is exactly what happened last time. The trip on Eurostar to Paris is fine but getting South to our destination takes both a long time and is very expensive and at the moment the timetables we want aren’t up. The other option is flying to Rodez which is what we did last time and it’s looking likely again, just need to [...]