My host drove me back to Montesquiou after breakfast so I began today's trek from there. The walking maps lead a bit to be desired at times and when the signs disappeared and the notes didn't make much sense I decided to head to Marciac on the main road for the final 7km. It was beginning to get warm and Tarmac is not the best surface on which to walk so a couple of beers on arrival were in order. Marciac is a nice little town with a huge square. Several restaura...

31km walk. However no accommodation in Montesquiou so staying in Marciac for 2 nights. A lot of hills today. I don't pass through many towns or villages on this trek, and therefore few place to buy food and drink. So when I got to a village called Barran I made the most of a supermarket. Water, cakes, fruit, chocolate and even an ice cream. They sustained memo the final push in to Montesquiou. I was hoping a bar would be open when I got here but everything was cl...

An uneventful day. A little cooler. So far managed to keep myself fit and healthy with no broken bones this year. However, I did manage to do my usual trick of walking out of the hotel this morning with the room key. I only realised about 5 km out so I wasn't going to walk back with it. Checked in to the hotel Auch which is a nice place but on top of a bloody big hill. Had dinner in the hotel which was superb. It included duck, for the second night in arrow but t...

25km walk. A beautiful breakfast to start the day but later start than I had planned as Elynis wanted to show me many pictures of her place as it used to be. 35 degrees today so hence I wanted an early start. Anyway, no dramas today. At one stage I saw a family car coming the other way down the track. The driver stopped and asked if I was walking the Chemin St Jacques de Compostella. I told him that I was so he got out and shook my hand and told me of a short cut...

The plan was to take the train out of Toulouse to Pibrac and start the walk from there. However, as my alarm went off at 5.30 and it was forecasted to be a hot day I decided to get a cab to Pibrac instead and start walking before it got too hot. That proved to be a good move in the end. Most of the walk was through the forest and this trek doesn't have anywhere near the signage and yellow arrows as the main Camino. So I took the wrong turn somewhere along the way...