Bagnères de Luchon - rest day
End of Week 4: 260 miles
It has been a near perfect rest day. The morning was a relaxing and
enjoyable outing to visit nearby sights with Marie-Agnes, Martine,
Joel and Jean-Marie, from Champagne. If any of the 4 of you are
reading this, thank you so much to all of you. The day would have been
less fun without your company and kindness, for sure.
We visited "Hospice de France" which housed refugees from the Spanish
civil war but it's been recently restored and looks very new so not
very evocative of the time. It was interestisng though and in a
beautiful spot in the mountains. On the way back down we went to the
Vallée de Lys and probably the most spectacular waterfall of the trip
so far - the Cascade d'Enfer (Hell's Waterfall). And of course in true
French style my hosts were well prepared with champagne chilled in
mountain snow collected yesterday. It will be difficult to get back to
water and baguette tomorrow.
Since then I've offloaded a little more weight onto the postman,
raided the bank, rinsed half the mountainside out of my walking gear
and done quite a lot of people watching along with the occasional
blackcurrant sorbet. And I've even quite enjoyed the piped music along
the main street, courtesy of the Mairie I assume. I am well and truly
chilled and ready for week 5 and the second half.
No photos for the moment I'm afraid as no wifi available.
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