Hotel des Voyageurs Aurillac

Took us a while to find a park last night as we were aiming to stay in Le Rozier which is close to the start of Gorges de Tarn as that was the drive we wanted to do today. <br><br>Unfortunately roadworks stood in our way and we took the next best option of the drive through Gorges du la Jonte. <br><br>Stunning is the best way to descirbe this drive. I got the ...

... and a ruin of an old church which lit up at night. <br> Wednesday 4 Nov<br>Some blue skies finally appeared about 9am this morning so we set out to have a last wander through the village, take some more photos and more importantly buy some quiches for lunch - yum!<br>

We left the west coast and headed inland to look for work. We stopped at Angouleme for lunch which had a spectacular view from the old city. We carried on into the Dordogne, and looking for a campsite came across a municipal site in a little town called Argentat-sur-Dordogne. The weather was stifling hot, which that night brought on 24 hours of massive thunderstorms and then 3 days of rain! The Dordogne was flooding and even Argentat lost electricity one night!

... sense. So, after making the drive up the Costa Brava in our slightly disabled car, we arrived back in Avignon, where we'd rented the beastly thing a week before. By the way, the toll road in France can be pretty hairy, in terms of giant tailgating trucks. It IS very fast, but just a word of caution to timid drivers or those who have a problem with constantly having to stick your credit card in toll gate machines before ...

... or faith, and talk to him about pilgrimage. we also interviewed rob descotes, a pastor from vancouver, and also an all around awesome guy and spiritual pilgrim, and eric, a law student from paris. last night we interviewed this really great german music student sebastian, who is walking from his home in liepzig (65 days away just to here) with a travel trumpet, and we listened to him perform ...

... activity. So far we've met some pretty interesting people. Andrew and Odille are a french couple from Normandy who are walking all the way to Santiago, and andrew is an orthodox priest and happens to look like santa. Patrique is a frenchman from paris, there have been some swiss ladies too. all in all its pretty communal and the spirit of santiago seems to be to help one another, and we have tried to live by that rule as much as we can. love trae

... Probably more fun to write. Jules offered us a ride. And dispatched one of his rabbit-toothed dogsbodies to take us down the road. He drove us two minutes, then stumbled through a long and awkward farewell-see-you-soon-youve-been-gr**** ****-what-was-your-name-again-sorry? Freedom! Ride with an English teacher (a French one). Quite creepy. Never become a Language teacher. Serious "autostop ...

... Puy. Relief. Le Puy is a beautiful town. It has a crumbling castle perched on a comically craggy cliff in the centre. Find the internet and realise that Betabet is not in Le Puy. Take a bus to a little town nearby then catch two more lifts off kind souls and finally. Arrive.

... 15, 2005 - After breakfast we drove into Greve for the weekly markets in the Piazza Matteotti before meeting Robyn at Mercatale and on to lunch at the historic country home of Count Gianfranco and Contessa Diana Grezzi whose wine estate I Lami is 2 km away from the village of S. Vincenzo a Torri and half an hour from the centre of Florence. A colourful group of women arrived one by one and we were joined by Diana's Italian husband, Gianfranco who 'stopped ...

... a whole bottle of wine just sitting there. Strange. The water was shimmering like a glass mirror. The peaceful silence did help my mood a bit. The trees and architecture here are relaxing and the unbusy-ness was a good slowdown. It was really nice to visit a small town in France but one night was enough for me as there is not a whole lot to do here except eat, drink and avoid the doggie doo doo. Off to Spain tomorrow.