Wednesday, September 12th
Today was an opportunity to sleep in, just a little, but after breakfast (with a view) we left Saint-Flour:
And decided to make a sideways excursion to one of the most important towns of the Chemin de Jacques (Camino de Compostela) - Le Puy en Velay:
Where the intermittent drizzle of the morning turned to rain:
Not a good day to go for a walk, especially all the way to Spain. However, it seemed there were many more people doing just that, both on foot and on bike. Many more than when Rob did exactly this about 15 years ago.
We left Le Puy for the very picturesque back road drive to Espalion which took us through some lovely gorges, and as high as 1400 meters where it was occasionally quite foggy, and cool (11C):
Some of this pilgrim route has been used by the Tour de France as recently as two or three years ago, and here's the proof:
We went through many lovely little French villages, some with twisted church spires (thank God for Sat Nav):
Arriving at our destination of Estaing (near Espalion, more tomorrow):
Rob's favourite town in all of France - pity the photographer couldn't keep themselves out of the picture (prudence, s'il vous plait).
The view from the hotel room window of the River Lot:
We are now enjoying a Campari and Soda, writing this blog, and waiting for (yet another) lovely French meal, with wine naturelement!
And if we're good, we can all go to sleep in a Princess's bed:
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