Category: Arles

Grimms Fairy Tales ~ May 31, 2016

  • Tuesday, May 31, 2016
  • Day 31 (Day 28 Camino)
  • Marciac
  • Distance: 14 1/2 miles (5% tarmac) 403 total miles
  • Ascent 1,491 feet and descent 1,601 feet
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Weather: 60-70 degrees, Cloudy with brief drizzles. Walked in shorts and rain jacket.

Like the setting for a Grimms fairytale, I walk through darken woods in the mist while tromping around “French Pies.”

  1. Towards Marciac
  2. Towards Marciac
  3. Towards Marciac

Lancôme ~ May 31, 2016

  • Tuesday, May 31, 2016
  • Day 31 (Day 28 Camino)
  • Marciac
  • Distance: 14 1/2 miles (5% tarmac) 403 total miles
  • Ascent 1,491 feet and descent 1,601 feet
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Weather: 60-70 degrees, Cloudy with brief drizzles. Walked in shorts and rain jacket.

Pilgrim who continue are offered gifts by pilgrims who have finished their walk. My seven French women gave me lunch, mole skin, and a petite bottle of Lancôme Miracle Magic Perfume. How French!  How yummy!

  1. Leaving Pouylebon – Lancôme
  2. Leaving Poutlebon – Pierrette, Catherine, Maria Claire, linda, Denise (sister), Christine, Jo (Driver), and Josy (president)…final – adieu
  3. Towards Marciac- Saint-Christaud, setting for last picnic that got rained-out

Stop ~ May 30, 2016

  • Monday, May 30, 2016
  • Day 30 (Day 27 Camino)
  • Pouylebon
  • Distance: 13 miles (30% tarmac) 388 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,536 feet and descent 1,496 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-70 degrees, Blue skies becoming cloudy; had lunch under a bus shelter during the 15-minutes of steady rain. Luckily I never needed more than my rain jacket while walking.

Stop and look…

  1. Towards Pouylebon – Porte Fortiée, Montesquiou
  2. Towards Pouylebon – Church in Montesquiou
  3. Towards Pouylebon – Goose Farm…Stage #1 in making Foie Gras

Triplets ~ May 30, 2016

  • Monday, May 30, 2016
  • Day 30 (Day 27 Camino)
  • Pouylebon
  • Distance: 13 miles (30% tarmac) 388 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,536 feet and descent 1,496 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-70 degrees, Blue skies becoming cloudy; had lunch under a bus shelter during the 15-minutes of steady rain. Luckily I never needed more than my rain jacket while walking.

Three shots of one view.

  1. Towards Pouylebon
  2. Towards Pouylebon
  3. Towards Pouylebon

M&M ~ May 30, 2016

  • Monday, May 30, 2016
  • Day 30 (Day 27 Camino)
  • Pouylebon
  • Distance: 13 miles (30% tarmac) 388 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,536 feet and descent 1,496 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-70 degrees, Blue skies becoming cloudy; had lunch in a bus shelter during the one 15-minutes rain shower. Luckily I never needed more than my rain jacket while walking.

M&M…mud and mud.

  1. Towards Pouylebon
  2. Towards Pouylebon
  3. Towards Pouylebon

Lay My Head ~ May 29, 2016

  • Sunday, May 29,2016
  • Day 29 (Day 26 Camino)
  • Barran (L’Isle de Noé)
  • Distance: 12 miles (80% tarmac) 375 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,371 feet and descent 1,547feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-75 degrees, 3 light drizzles becoming blue skies with white clouds…humid breaks.

Where I lay my head…

  1. Beyond Barran – L’Isle de Noé
  2. Beyond Barran – L’Isle de Noé
  3. Beyond Barran – L’Isle de Noé

Twisted ~ May 29, 2016

  • Sunday, May 29,2016
  • Day 29 (Day 26 Camino)
  • Barran (L’Isle de Noé)
  • Distance: 12 miles (80% tarmac) 375 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,371 feet and descent 1,547feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-75 degrees, 3 light drizzles becoming blue skies with white clouds…humid breaks.

Twisted or crooked spire of the Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste. There are 33 in France and 80 in Europe.

  1. Barran – “Laundry”
  2. Barran –
  3. Barran – Helicoidal spire of the Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste