Day 5: Too cold for the daisies to open! The day dawned grey and distinctly chilly, with the potential for rain. I breakfasted and said my goodbyes. I headed off in a novel variation of the official route of my own devising, despite yesterday's challenges. Halfway through my shortcut I ran into a friendly farmer …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 5 L’Omnie (Couy) to Bourges 22kms
Day 4: The day started with a slight accident with my glasses, one lens came out. So that is a job to get sorted in Bourges on Wednesday. Left just before nine. I make the first bit of walking the time for morning prayer using the Daily Prayer app. I was so into it this …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 4 La Chapelle-Montlinard to L’Omnie (Couy) 20.5kms
Keeping on trackHow do you know you are keeping on the right track on le chemin de Compostelle?Camino way marking in FranceThese are the symbols you see pasted up on various bits of road furniture, and sometimes on trees or fences.. There are often arrows L & R if you face a choice. But they …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 3.3 Following the Route
Day 3: Again, a misty start, but it seemed to hold the promise of something better later on. Breakfast at 8. Madame told me of her mother who had been born in Manchester, but who had ended up being married off and veiled in Lebanon, before escaping to Morocco (having been obliged to leave her …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 3.2 Chasnay to La Chapelle-Montlinard 22k
Day 3 - Lunch in Raveau. When all that is open is a patisserie! I think I would have preferred some bread and cheese, but I have so far passed no ordinary ships since Vezelay, so, being fairly ravenous (see what I did there!) I went into the only shop in the village. This yielded …
I slept like a log. The day dawned grey, damp and cool - like an English Bank Holiday. Excellent breakfast by my host. She was a theatrical scenery painter in Paris, but fled to the country with her musician partner some decades ago. She had a successful business making Hopi ear candles (for an avid …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 2 la Grange Teillard to Chasnay 21 kms
From The Quire 