Today was another perfect day! The weather was lovely; cool, breezy, and cloudy. That's not to say the sun never came out but there were equal parts sun and cloud for today's trek. This morning I had a leisurely breakfast, not wanting to move too fast. Not much luck with sleep last night, so after a forgetful morning involving walking 10 minutes across town to the start of the trail and turning around when I realized I was missing my sun protection, I ended up walking with a group of French people meaning I got to speak French 80% to 90% of the time and learned some new rules in the language. In fact, I think I learned five new things: the difference in pronunciation between "debout" (stand: vb) and "debut" (the start), how to say barefoot: "pieds nus", the word for moss "mousse", that "jeux" (game) sounds exactly like "je" and lastly the the feminine form of "fou" (crazy) is "folle".
Between 11 and 12, with only 6 km finished, I stopped to buy a sandwich...which someone else offered to buy. He had spoken to the French lady who was serving us and then she didn't look twice at my €5 bill. While walking the next piece, I was having a conversation with one of the French group and he was mentioning that a friend of his, whom I met at our previous stop, had a car parked ahead of us and that it would be possible to ask him for a ride towards Montcoq. After perhaps another 5 km or so, we stopped again at a restaurant and as I was pulling out what was left of my cheese sandwich they told me to put it away and that they would pay for that as well.
From there I got a ride that cut out at least a good 10 km and only walked about 5.7 more to the town I made a reservation in last night. I arrived here at around 4:00 and just before visiting the town a bit, I called my mother. We had a nice conversation and I sent here a couple more maps of the trail I'm walking.
I already have plans made for the next two nights so things should go smoothly tomorrow.
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