Lectoure

Our Bedroom Window in Lectoure

Miradoux-Lectoure 15.5km. Total:55km

My friend Maude was teasing me and suggesting that with all this time to write blogs I wasn't walking very much. She is on to me. Even though we are starting very slowly my shins and hips have been begging for a break.
Lectoure is a wonderful place for an extra night. It's a fortified medieval town with roots stretching back before the arrival of the Romans.
Our chambre d'hotes, the Halte Pelerine is fantastic. Our host, Veronique, is lovely and the house is built right into the town wall with views out over the valley below.

Beating the Heat

Auvillar -Miradoux 17km. Total:39
Accueil pelerin La Pause Verte, Miradoux

We woke up at five and because the forecast was predicting a scary 37 degrees we departed before dawn.  We had to stay on the road for the first four kilometres walking by moonlight until the sun peeked up. It was wonderful and cool.

We arrived in Miradoux at eleven am just as the heat was starting to build up. By twelve the thermometer at the pharmacy was reporting 37 and now it is claiming to be 44!

Therese, our host, is a treasure! Accueils are not gites,but instead are places were people welcome pilgrims into their homes and you just pay what you can. She is certainly welcoming and she
even used her public health nursing experience to minister to several angry bites that Gord was reacting to. Everyone, except Gord believes they were caused by bed bugs. Gord wants to believe they were caused by a fairy resembling a young Natasha Kinsky in tights. It is a shame he is so allergic to Natasha.