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Having temporarily left my project of walking towards Santiago de Campostella, I am back to my project of walking around Basel and Basel Landschaft cantons. Dornach was where the last stage ended, so it was where this one started. I arrived on an early morning train and started walking immediately. The trail follows the railway…

It is over a week since I completed my walk from Le Puy en Velay to Cahors, and it seems like time for some reflection on the enterprise: what has been done so far, what is still to be done, and what I have learned in the process. So let’s look back at what has…

This post was written on May 17th, though not posted until May 19th. It was another misty morning leaving the gite at Bach. Incidentally, the village is named after a German family who settled there in centuries past. However, instead of pronouncing it similar to the name of the famous composer, the French pronounce it…

This post was written on May 18th, but only posted on May 18th due to connectivity issues I left Cajarc in the early morning mist. It was one of those mists that is not exactly rain but just has water condensing on almost everything: hair, clothes, rucksack, and so on. But it was not actually…

I left Figeac at 08:00 this morning. Incidentally, the name of the town is pronounced fee-zhack, with the emphasis on the second syllable. But in any case, it was damp at that time. I was uncertain whether to use the raingear, but based on the forecast, I decided against it. He forecast promised better weather…

I have said it before: into every life a little rain must fall, and today was the day. So there will be no sunny photos to accompany this posting. I tell it like it was. I lift the gite at 08:00 after a good breakfast, and was soon heading up the hill with dozens of…

The hotel in Conques did not serve breakfast until 08:00. Even though I made sure I was in the dining room before that, it did not seem to matter. The breakfast was not ready until 08:00. As a result, it was after 08:30 when I was ready to depart. It was not exactly raining, but…

I left the gite shortly after 07:00 tto walk the few hundred metres back to the administration point and to get breakfast. Breakfast was high in carbohydrate, which is probably what I needed: cereal and bread, washed down with coffee and orange juice. And so, just after 08:00, I was on the road again. The…

Breakfast this morning was great, and at 08:30, I was ready to go on the route. I made my way down the street to the new bridge in town. It’s not photogenic like the old one, so I am not posting any photos here! From there, the route heads west along the riverbank. At first…

Breakfast in the gite was great: good coffee, orange juice, Danish pastry and good fresh French bread. So I left Aubrac fully replenished in the mists of early morning. They were not as dense as the evening before, but still present. Aubrac is at 1307 metres above sea level and sitting on the edge of…