To Majors-Alm Farm

The second part of today's walk was relatively short, only about an hour. Right now, I'm sitting outside the little hergerbe waiting to find out if I am sleeping there tonight or somewhere else. Not much can happen until that question has been settled.

As it transpired, I was not staying in the herberge, but the woman running the place had found me a room in the barn that was being prepared to offer as another room for pilgrims, etc. It was far from complete, but we were able to move a mattress into the room, and I was then able to set up for the evening. It quickly became apparent that I would need to deal with an enormous number of flies if I didn't find a way of stopping them from getting into the room. As soon as I got one lot out the window, it seemed that another lot was there ready to take its place. After a little exploring, I found a large open tube leading outside where it appeared the replacement hordes were coming in. Once this had been blocked off with some paper, the problem quickly abated.

We spent a little time chatting, and I was offered a meal and a beer, which I felt would have been indelicate to refuse. This was followed by coffee and cake. I felt that I was about the best fed I had ever been for the price that I was being charged for this place.

She was then off to milk her cows in the summer farm up in the highlands, although I never did really find out how far away that was. I'm expecting that in reality it wasn't too far distant just up in the hills close to their winter property.

If there was any drawback, it was that I had to make a long trek from the barn to the house to use any of the facilities. In the middle of the night, while it is still light enough to do that without great difficulty, it was still not something that I was going looking forward to.

I later learned that the Dutch woman who had booked into the herberge arrived quite late in the evening. It was certainly after I had gone to bed, although I probably wouldn't have heard her arrival from the barn in any case. I met her when we stayed together at another place and when we reconstructed our individual journeys we realized we had been at the same place that night.Okumaya devam et