Day 4 Lamothe to Nogaro, 29 kms

Oops, it’s after 9pm so this will be a bullet point update.

- Breakfast at Gite Le Mille Bornes, in early morning light
- Easy 8 km walk to Eauze, a town we know well
- Delighted to see again our friend Jean Philippe, the proprietor of the fabulous Loft Cafe and local Armagnac specialist
- Coffee from JP, with pastry bought from the nearby boulàngerie, yum
- Farewelled JP, with the promise to be back for dinner, when we have finished our long walk
- As we are leaving, JP presents us with a minatuire bottle of Armagnac to be enjoyed when we arrive in SdeC. It’s now in Domi’s pack!
- After Eauze, we have 21 kms to go to Nogaro
- Some of which we share with our new German friends (and room mates from the previous night) Georg and AnneMarie
- Walking through the vines and beside the cornfields
- Arrived at the only in between town, Manciet, at around 12.30, for a lunch stop. Nothing open so we had no food. But we enjoyed sitting in the shade, stretching and water
- Temperature climbing as per previous days, more walking with Georg and AnneMarie
- Arrived in Nogaro around 3.30. Not a particularly inviting town, just as we remembered, but they are still celebrating the Tour de France from some months ago, which adds some colour
- Happy to have a lovely room and own bathroom in the home of Chantal
- She tells us that there is nothing open tomorrow between here and Aire sur l’Adour, about 27 kms - so we stroll down to the Carrefour supermarket for supplies
- Chantal also recommends the Italian restaurant for dinner. We’ve just returned. Fabulous, and not just because we were hungry
- Breakfast will be at 7 tomorrow, and then we’re off.

So far, so good. Just 970 or so kms to go 😎Read more