Category: Arles

George Washington ~ May 9, 2016 

  • Monday, May 9, 2016
  • Day 9 (Day 6 Camino)
  • St-Guilhem-Le-Désert
  • Distance: 14 1/2 miles (35% tarmac) / 90 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,444 feet and descent 1,526 feet
  • Time: 7 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60 degrees, intermediate to steady drizzle

Americans tout George Washington slept here.

French tout the Romans were here.

  1. Towards St-Guilhem-Le-Désert
  2. Towards St-Guilhem-Le-Désert
  3. Towards St-Guilhem-Le-Désert

Strolling ~ May 9, 2016 

  • Monday, May 9, 2016
  • Day 9 (Day 6 Camino)
  • St-Guilhem-Le-Désert
  • Distance: 14 1/2 miles (35% tarmac) / 90 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,444 feet and descent 1,526 feet
  • Time: 7 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60 degrees, intermediate to steady drizzle

Strolling through vineyards and poppies.

  1. Towards St-Guilhem-Le-Désert
  2. Towards St-Guilhem-Le-Désert
  3. Towards St-Guilhem-Le-Désert

Conclusion ~ May 8, 2016

  • Sunday, May 8, 2016
  • Day 8 (Day 5 Camino)
  • Montarnaud
  • Distance: 15 miles (35% tarmac) / 76 total miles
  • Ascent 1,409 feet and descent 1,185 feet
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Weather: 60 degrees, cloudy with several brief drizzle

Tremendous conclusion to Montpellier.

  1. Montpellier – 18th-C Château D’Eau
  2. Montpellier – Place Royale du Peyrou
  3. Montpellier – Place Royale du Peyrou

Monument Avenue ~ May 7, 2016

  • Saturday, May 7, 2016
  • Day 7 (Day 4 Camino)
  • Montpellier
  • Distance: 12 miles (50% tarmac) / 61 total miles
  • Ascent 652 feet and descent 607 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours (The Way not signed for 5 hours)
  • Weather: 50 – 72 degrees, blue sky with cloud

Monument Avenue, France…not Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.

  • Montpellier – Mounted Statue of Louis XIV
  • Montpellier – Château  D’Eau
  • Montpellier -Triumphal Arch

Francophile ~ May 7, 2016 

  • Saturday, May 7, 2016
  • Day 7 (Day 4 Camino)
  • Montpellier
  • Distance: 12 miles (50% tarmac) / 61 total miles
  • Ascent 652 feet and descent 607 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours (The Way not signed for 5 hours)
  • Weather: 50 – 72 degrees, blue sky with clouds

As Francophile, I feels so at home with the French that I would walk up to a unknown Frenchman and inquire where he purchased his scarf. Hours later I had not only purchase a similar scarf; but, also run into the same fellow at the scarf store.

  1. Montpellier
  2. Montpellier
  3. Montpellier  – Jules Store

Saint-Roch ~ May 7, 2016

  • Saturday, May 7, 2016
  • Day 7 (Day 4 Camino)
  • Montpellier
  • Distance: 12 miles (50% tarmac) / 61 total miles
  • Ascent 652 feet and descent 607 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours (The Way not signed for 5 hours)
  • Weather: 50 – 72 degrees, blue sky with clouds

Montpellier was birthplace of C 14th Saint Roch, the patron saint of pilgrims. His faithful dog, always depicted, brought him bread during his self-imposed quarantine as a plague victim (see scar on leg) during the plague.

  1. Montpellier – Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Chapelle Saint-Roch
  2. Montpellier – Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Chapelle Saint-Roch
  3. Montpellier – Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Chapelle Saint-Roch

Me and My Shadow ~ May 7, 2016

  • Saturday, May 7, 2016
  • Day 7 (Day 4 Camino)
  • Montpellier
  • Distance: 12 miles (50% tarmac) / 61 total miles
  • Ascent 652 feet and descent 607 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours (The Way not signed for 5 hours)
  • Weather: 50 – 72 degrees, blue sky with clouds

Me and my shadow…can you find me?

  1. Towards Montpellier – Bike art a’la Cousin Linda Carol
  2. Towards Montpellier – Chinaberry seeds….Thomas Jefferson sent Chinaberry seeds to Lafayette aunt in France.
  3. Towards Montpellier – Easy…cappuccino break