I found a half blister / half bruise between two of my toes this morning which has been causing most of the pain in my foot and it continued to cause me grief today. Another hard day but no Saint in the name of the town so the Saintly correlation is weakening.
I have been repeating […]

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We were very weary when we woke up this morning and it was a real struggle to get going, most of my thoughts were about how great it would be to finish and not have to put on boots and a pack each morning. Just as we were leaving town we met a french pilgrim […]

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Very glad to have a short day today, the gite we are staying at is another old cloisters and has room for 70 pilgrims - there are 94 here tonight and we are sleeping on matresses on the floor in the Chevaliers room. There are large tapestries on the walls with images of French knights […]

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Saint Martin has joined the elevated list of gites on sacred ground - the ones whose gates we long to fall down and pray before when reach them. Saint Privat, Saint Alban, Nasbinals, Cahors, Saint Martin.
To some extent there is always a feeling of “We’ve made it” when the town we are staying at comes […]

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It’s day 16 and it feels like the first day of the pilgrimage, everything before this has been more of a walking holiday. I spent most of the day doing mantra repetition (Om Namah Shivaya) and have been focusing on emptying my mind of thoughts. The difference is incredible, for the first time since we […]

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Spent a rest day in Cahors to “allow time for our souls to catch up” a wonderful expression we spent the night discussing with a German man. It has been so easy to take the hectic lifestyle of the modern world and transfer it to the way we walk, constantly pushing to go a little […]

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I’ve uploaded some photos we’ve taken so far but unfortunately the page is messed up and the menu is down the bottom. The photos also got a bit confused about the order they are meant to be in but you should be able to see them at least.
If any of the crew at Sinuous are […]

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Biggest day of the pilgrimage so far, we were originally going to split this part up into two easy days but wanted to see how we would handle it. Pretty tough but not much harder than the 32 km to St Alban on day 3.
We left at 6:30 in the morning and arrived at 6:30 […]

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An easy day today as we’re (me!) are starting to get tired. Unfortunately heidi has done a bit too much training and enjoys dragging me out of bed in the morning. The gite was packed with pilgrims from many different countries and our multi linguel host was run nearly losing her mind speaking in french, […]

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The gite in Cajarc was full and our host had put down some fold out beds in the pool house so there were only five of us in the room. Two of our three roomates were social workers - one from germany and the other from norway. Heidi was quite happy about this and we […]

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