We woke up in the middle of the night inside the Abbey of Sainte Foy. The deepest silence surrounds us. Not one little sound. The stone building really gives the silence a sense of quiet and serenity unlike any place else on earth. The view of the church of sainte Foy through the window gives […]

At breakfast this morning, a French pilgrim told us according to his research, after Figeac, which is a 2 days’ walk away, it will be no more climbing. All flat valley, nice and easy. No more up and down. I smiled at him. It’s amazing how there is always hope on the camino that soon […]

Estaing in the morning fog is like a post card picture of a chateau in medieval time! It’s stunningly beautiful. We woke up and ready to go again. It’s a strange thing. At night our body is sore then in the morning we wake up and everything is fine. We can walk again. Actually it […]

Ed had a radio show last night at 2am to 3 am which was 5 pm Phoenix time. He set his alarm to wake up for the radio show. He was afraid he might fall asleep during the show so he turned on all the lights. I woke up with him. All I heard was […]

We woke up to a dark grey cloudy sky. First time since we started our pilgrimage. The first seven days were blessed with beautiful and sunny weather. Today however is a totally different story. As we were getting ready to start out walk, the wind has picked up and we can see the tree branches […]

Today is long day of walking. The longest since we arrived into Le Puy. We are now leaving behind the Margeride Plateau and are beginning to cross the Aubrac Plateau, a wide expanse of pastures, old barns, drystone wall stones. We first passed through the hamlets of La Chauze de Peyre and Lasbros rather quickly […]

We had a very pleasant walk from St Alban to Aumont-Aubrac. The trail is never flat and this section is more undulating with only short section of steep up and down. We have left the haute Loire region and we have started to enter the lozere region. Know for its beef (boeuf d’aubrac) as well […]

We woke up all rested this morning. We got dressed then came downstairs for breakfast. Ready to go, we went to the shelf to get our boots. When we came in yesterday, we were early, the first ones to arrive, we put our boots on the common shelf without thinking about where we actually put […]