2017-09-27 Saint-Antoine-de Pont-d’Arratz - Lectour (25/504 km)

Woke up and after a common breakfast we four "common pilgrims" were ready to start. The others slept still when, at least I, went away.

Help-yourself - at the wayside

The landscape as the day before. Slowly rolling hills, much agriculture, much walking along roadsides. But often these roadsides have a special trail for pilgrims. And that's good. An sometimes you can also buy a little at the wayside at an unmanned stand.

The fast Frenchman with quick feet passed me and disappeared. A while later I met a younger Frenchman from Toulouse who spook good English. He had obviously heard about me from the fast Frenchman, so I was interviewed about the various caminos in Spain. But this guy was a slow Frenchman - or wanted to walk alone - so I left him after a while.

I had coffee in Miradoux. Not the best. Had also problems with my camera so I missed several photos. Discovered the the batteries had ran out.

I realized a bit further on that I would not come to some place with restaurant around lunchtime.I it had to be lunch from the backpack; tuna, bread and water.


Well I forgot that I passed two ladies earlier and one of those parallell tracks. One of the spoke very good English. and actually proved to be an English teacher in France. Her partner said nothing and I wondered how much she understood. I had left them earlier but now they caught up with me again and made the same conclusion as I - lunch at the the side a small stream.

Lectoure - at a distance

Finally I reached Lectoure and found the hotel I was looking for more or less immediately. A bit outdated but OK. I had got som mail from the company back home so I sat working with those for a while. One asked me to participate in a Skype meeting tomorrow afternoon. I said yes. Will be interesting to see how that will work.

After the required washing I went the 100 m into the town that was not very big. As I walked along the main street I heard Norwegian spoken. Two ladies on their way along Via Podiensis as I. But they walked only for two weeks at a time so they would just continue for some days more and the return home and come back at some later time. The first Scandinavians that I had met so far. And they made the same reflexion as I - almost only Frenchmen at this way.

I went and bought some backpack-food to replace the one I had eaten earlier. Then I had a pizza before returning to the hotel to write this.

El paisaje del dá está como el día antes. Mucha agricultura. Encontré dos mujeres. Una de estas era una profesora de inglés. Fácil de hablar. Almuerzo con tuna. La distancia hacia Lectoure está demasiado grande. En Lectoure también encontré dos otras mujeres, de Noruega. Las primeras - y primeros – de Escandinavia que había encontrado de este camino. Ellas solo caminaban dos semanas dependiente a sus trabajos. Hablábamos un poco de los caminos en el sur de Europa y en el Escandinavia.