Day 21 Toulouse

Lazy lazy day. I spent a lot of it trying to sort out what comes next. It’s not always obvious where to break up the stages. Gronze has at least one that ends in a place with no accommodation. What’s with that??? Tomorrow it will take the whole day to get out of the city. And my guess is that all of it will be on asphalt. Ugh. And then the question is whether the next 4 days are all kind of medium length or whether I do two short (to keep being nice to my knee) and two longer. I’ll decide tomorrow I guess. I will be interested to see if there really are more people walking after Toulouse.

Besides adding up kilometers to plan stages, I also did my laundry. It took a lot of reading to figure out how it all worked. Pay at a digital screen over there to unlock access to the washer over here and to deliver soap powder into a little container on the other side of the room. Equivalent of $15 to wash and mostly dry a tiny bag of clothes.

Most of the laundromats I have seen here also rent out space to package delivery lockers. I was the only person washing clothes, but probably 10 people came in and either dropped off or picked up packages while I was there.

Thai food for dinner to make sure of getting vegetables. And then a very tiny scoop of mint - chocolate ice cream made with actual mint leaves.

And then I walked back to the hotel along the river. Exceptionally well used public space. La fleuve Garonne flows northwest and into the Atlantic at Bordeaux. It’s already pretty big here. It must be impressive up there.Read more