A Pilgrimage Walk from Le Puy-en-Velay to Santiago de Compostela, 2003. 7. Fifth week (23-29 May)
Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, 2003 . Week 5 (23-29 May) Friday, 23 May 2003. Maslacq. [Day 29] 6:15 p.m. Tonight we are staying in the Hôtel Magouber, because the municipal gîte is very small, only four beds, and it was full. The hotel’s restaurant is closed on Fridays, but pilgrims / walkers are welcomed and will be served a dinner at 7:15 p.m. Caroline walked again today without a backpack, thanks to a group of seven Parisians (from the southern suburbs) at the gîte last night, who have a car (driven in rotation). They dropped off the backpack here and arranged for our room, after having first checked if there was space at the gîte. Tomorrow Caroline will have to walk with the pack. We plan to do 20 km, to Navarrenx. The owner of the gîte in Casteide-Candau let us off this morning at 8:45 a.m. at the market in Pomps where we had left the trail yesterday. On the way, she drove us through Morlanne , a picturesque town with an impressive castle on a bluf...