Day 14 - Pommiers en Forez to Montverdun

We had a lovely meal at the local restaurant and they all sang happy birthday to Simon in French!
The restaurant also agreed to provide breakfast for us this morning 🙌
We had a long walk of 21+km so set off in bright sunshine. We passed fields of poppies and cornflowers as we were in arable land. So fields of barley, wheat and corn bordered our path.
So 19km trundled along ok, I was grumbling a little about aching feet. We passed a tranquil river and I said I’d love to dip my feet in and cool them off - I learned one has to be careful what one wishes for 😳
We were homing in on the finish feeling well pleased - when we ended up in the swamp lands, the river had burst it banks and was now flowing along the path. So the last km or so we were ankle deep in running water, and hacking through giant nettles and scrubland.
Then we walked up a hill to the Mountverdon Priory, our destination for the night, in a thunderstorm only to find it locked up. I had to ring the emergency number and attempt to explain our dilemma in my rubbish pigeon French.
So a man came to save us and now we are the sole dwellers in the medieval priory on the hill. They have left our dinner in the fridge in the big kitchen and locked us in for the night.
The man is coming at 8 in the morning to release us and take us for breakfast at the bakery in town - we hope??!!
Now it’s just us and the spirits of the ancient monks…Läs mer