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Camino magic! It turns out that I do know the Cindy in the guest book! Cindy was the first person Ken and I had met on the Camino Frances in 2019. I knew she had done the Voie de Vezelay last year but didn’t know she and her husband were here again. What a smallContinue reading “October 26. La Gatarde to Chateau Puy Sevrain. 17.41 km.”

The three musketeers are back together again. Or is that drowned rats? Rain, sometimes torrential, for much of the day. It was raining for the 1.5 km walk to the train station, where we took a 15 minute train to Mussidan to begin today’s walk. But okay once we got off the train. The bestContinue reading “October 25. Mussidan to La Gatarde. 15.12 km.”

Terry stayed at the apartment for foot recovery, but walked around the town, checked out where to do laundry, did a big grocery shop without thinking of having to lug the groceries home, and got excited at the idea of dumping a few more pounds from her pack, only to find out that Canada PostContinue reading “October 24. St. Astier to Mussidan. 17.91 km. Three solitudes.”

Terry took a break from walking today, wandered around town for a bit, then caught a taxi to our next town.  I was going to take the train but ALL the trains were cancelled for some reason. The taxi driver kept trying to talk to me but his phone never stopped ringing…likely because there wereContinue reading “October 23. Perigueux to St. Astiers. 24.57 km for Ken and Scott.”

We could not find a place to stay between Thiviers and Perigueux, and weren’t prepared to walk 40 km, so we took the train.  I also wasn’t able to walk well yet. So to the train station we went. Waited in the bar across the street from the station and noticed the functioning pizza machine.Continue reading “October 20 to 22nd. Thiviers to Perigueux via train.”

I asked Ken to do the blog today. This is his version. Tough day. Here’s a frigging picture. Given that’s typical Ken and thus completely unacceptable, here is the real blog. One thing I didn’t mention earlier was that my foot was seized up by the time we reached our accommodation last night and itContinue reading “October 19. La Coquille to Thiviers.”

Another summery day, although Ken says cold rain is coming soon. I was tempted to walk around the yard for 0.14 km to round up to 24 km.  A strange day in that sometimes we had full wind (ie lots of energy as opposed to wind produced by the weather and/or Ken 😵‍💫) and lifeContinue reading “October 18. Chalus to La Coquille. 23.87 km.”

Did I mention we got chilly on the boat and we bought cold weather clothes? And then how yesterday the temperatures have bounce back up to 20 degrees during the day? Yep, I am so thankful that I bought that puffy vest to fill up my empty backpack even more. Heavy sigh. But the countrysideContinue reading “October 17. Flavignac to Chalus. 17.10 km.”

To try to shorten the day plus avoid a long sidewalk trudge out of Limoges, we decided to take a 15 minute train ride to a starting point just outside of Limoges. This also gave us an opportunity to go to the Tourist Office for our pilgrim stamps and visit the Museum of Resistance.   Ken’sContinue reading “October 16.  Limoges to Aixe-sur-la-Vienne by train and then on to Flavignac by foot and the power of the mind. 22 km.”

3 days for the price of one, as the days were somewhat disjointed with lots of travel.  We did some laundry at the nearby supermarket where Peter stocked up on his favourite treats to bring home, said goodbye to Calypso 29, took a private car-bus to an airport hotel near Charles de Gaulle Airport. SpentContinue reading “October 13 to 15. Planes, trains and automobiles. The pillow edition.”