2017-10-01 Nogaro - Aire-sur-l'Adour (28/623 km)

A live hen greeting me on the way

Had a good night yesterday. Close to my table sat a three people at the end of the meal one of the stepped over ans asked me who I was. That was the start of a good conversation. The man - and the two other persons - were Americans but Americans of Norwegian parents. So he knew a few words Norwegian. He and his wife and a friend had walked the Camino Frances two years ago and now they were back and walked from Le Puy. He was of my age and a cattle farmer in Montana(!!!) Intresting meeting one night.

...and a dead frog, not saying so much

Early start as usual. Breakfast at the gite as usual and then out of Nogaro. But not without forgetting that there was a bunch of bullfighter fans in the gite also. They have bullfights without damaging the bull in Nogaro. A good variety.

A walking day as usual grey with sometimes a light rain. No one of the more fantastic days. Also a day without a major stopping point. I had a coffee at Lelin-Lapujolle in a small improvised coffee-shop, but that was the only stop. There is a flat area before Aire-sur-l'Adour, probably a river-plain. There you went along an old railway. I passed the gang of ladies from yesterday.

... and another rest on the way into Barcelonne

Pilgrims rest along the railway to Aire

A greeting from home - Husqvarna garden equipment on sale

I had hoped to find an open restaurant in Barcelonne a suburb of Aire. But none! Marching in to Aire I saw a hotel to the left and I got a room in that. Washing, resting and ordering a ticket back home. It was not the easiest with non-functioning credit cards and a number of other problem. But now it is fixed - hopefully. My idea is to walk to Pamplona and take the bus to Biarritz-Bayonne airport and then fly home from there.

Now I see that it is time for dinner this day without too much food. Let's see if we can change that. - I did.

Otro día con lluvia. Un día como ayer. Pero el más interesante pasó la noche antes. En el restaurante donde comía encontré tres personas de EE. UU. Con raíces de Noruega, pero vivían en Montana. Era la segunda vez que ellos caminaban los caminos de Santiago. Caminaron el Camino Frances desde Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port hace dos años. Uno de estos era un propietario de un rancho de ganado. Un encuentro extraño.