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| Back in the large dining hall for breakfast |
We woke up extra early because we knew we had 28 km to do and we knew, at this point in the trip, that 28 kms usually meant 2 to 4 km more. We ate breakfast back in the main area at 7 am. The large group of hikers were already eating bread and butter, local plain yogurt with homemade blueberry conserves, juice and coffee.
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| René in the fog |
The morning weather was foggy and there was a damp chill in the air. We left just past 8h00, a bit of a record for us as we usually took a lot longer to get ready. I was dressed for the chill and the fog with shorts and light pants over the shorts, my merino wool t-shirt, fleece and windbreaker. I was cold, but looking forward to the walk as I knew that the brisk exercise would soon keep me warm.
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| The fogged in trail. |
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| The cow send-off. |
We walked out of the Domaine du Sauvage valley and through the forest. The fog took a while to lift and the mist settled on our hair and our packs.
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| Not the WC, but the church |
We came to a mid-morning pit-stop with a small church and a dry WC. The large group of hikers were there also making a stop. There was a line-up for the toilet, but it was worth it as there was toilet paper!
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| A beautiful day |
We walked along with them for a some time. One man told us of his travels with his wife to Santiago. The skies were clearing, and we were down to shorts as the day warmed up.
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| Fall colours. |
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| Blue sky! |
The day was through farms, forests, plateaus, roads, gravel trails, sandy trails, forest paths, uphill, downhill, flat, and through towns.
We stopped St Alban de Limagnole at the small grocery to buy lunch supplies, tinned mackerel and carrot salad. We had our mid-morning snack of nuts and decided to apply sunscreen as the sun was coming out. The electronic billboard in town said it was 15 degrees Celsius. We were down to t-shirts.
On the way through the forest, we caught up with a couple from Belgium, Beaudoin and Vicki. They told us they were walking because their daughter convinced them. She had walked in September and had wonderful memories to share. They were walking to Conques.
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| Picnic lunch spot |
We had lunch of canned mackerel, leftover bread, and an apple at a picnic table on the property of a gite.
The walk in the afternoon was particularly difficult for me, not René. Everything seemed to hurt, back, toes, hips, Achilles tendon. I was in good spirits, but I just wanted to stop walking. I was thankful though for many things: for the sun, a good lunch, no blisters, a place to stay in the evening, no major pain, and my wonderful husband.
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| Aubrac-Rando sign. |
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| Home for the night |
Eventually we walked into town, and found the hiking store called
Aubrac-Rando, where we had an apartment booked for the night. We went back to the small grocery to buy supper supplies. We were quite comfortable in the cute two room apartment. The kitchen was fully equipped and so we made pasta with vegetables for supper, and had enough leftover for lunch (yay, Ziplocs). We had a bottle of wine with the pasta and hot chocolate with two treats from the neighbouring boulangerie for dessert.
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