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- 1 maj 2024, 15:48
- 🌧 12 °C
- Wysokość: 349 m
- FrancjaOccitaniaConques44°35’32” N 2°25’20” E
Golinhac to Conques: rain, mud, hills
1 maja, Francja ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
It was raining lightly when we left around 8:15, and it only got heavier. The views were misty rather than panoramic, but it was always green countryside, with cows sometimes lined up by the trail to watch us walk by. Sadly it was a day of many narrow, steep paths, which were sometimes rivers of mud. But what the heck: clean socks and shoes awaited us in Conques.
Conques was a revelation. We knew the path went down steeply to it, so assumed it would be a typical village/ town spread out beside a river. The last 1.5 km was an overgrown and steep Kokoda- style mudslide, and we could not see where the land flattened out. Then we were in a stony street with old houses, with an enormous abbey church around the corner - work started on it in the 11th C. . It is more a cathedral than a church, and the houses and hotels etc are packed in lines beside and around it. It was like expecting Nyngan but finding a miniature Oxford.
The hotel is about 1 room wide. It has 4 rooms per floor. It is also several centuries old. We arrived at 2pm, seconds before out bags, but the 3pm rule was mentioned, so we looked in the abbey, the tourist office, and some of the shops, talked with a chstty young Englishman who had a tiny souvenir shop, then collected a key and started drying out.
We met St Craig and Liz to return the borrowed overpants. They arrived in Conques yesterday and were in the other open hotel, but we took them to dinner in this one. The restaurant is usually closed on Wednesdays, but they were open on 1 May as it was a holiday and they hoped it might be busy. It was. Very good dinner: more aligot and local pork sausage for me, and the best beef ragout ever for Anne. Pus local red wine. Craig and Liz have a speech therapist daughter in Dubbo. Also shared a little trepidation about the very steep and muddy path that goes back up to start tomorrow.
Hotel was the Auberge St Jacques. 1 Wifi erratic. 2 No tea/ coffee. 3 Good bed. 4 Dark and up some winding stairs.
31,250 steps, 25.2km, 76flights Czytaj więcej
Podróżnik I had to laugh…after boasting about our blue skies, our arrival in Conques was during a cloudburst and that last path down was a torrential river!
Podróżnik This has a vaguely Armageddon feel to it
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