I think the guidebook is telling me that today’s destination is almost unpronounceable and recommends just using Arzacq, which is good enough for me!
I added a few photos to yesterday’s page showing the beautiful house we were staying at – we saw some photos of it before the lovely couple who owned it renovated it and it was virtually derelict in 2001 and took them 6 years to do up!
We really had a great walk today, not particularly early out of the blocks as we had a short day but the air was still cool when we left the house and walked back to Miramont-Sensacq, a beautiful village from which we got our first glimpse of the Pyrénées on the far horizon (our host in Lectoure said you could see them from our window but we couldn’t!). We walked through really nice country for the first hour or thereabouts in rolling hills – a pleasant break from the relentless corn on the valley floor. Even though we only had a short walk today we are at the stage of the trip where any shortcut is a good one, so we cut about 2kms off the road to Pimbo, another beautiful village and church where we stopped for morning coffee, by taking a slightly different route which actually put us on less road than the proper route.
After Pimbo we had about an hour and a half back on the valley floor but much smaller farms (although in one photo there’s corn just about as far as the eye can see) and more pleasant than the last couple of days. As seems to be usual, the GR65 took us on a bit of a circuitous entrance into town that at times gets frustrating but we made it into Arzaqc for lunch as planned, which was very nice.
We’re in another old house tonight right on the main intersection of the town – hopefully the traffic drops of in the evening. Unusually for the places we’ve been in they will do your laundry so we’re getting a bit done!
15kms today and 624kms in total with five walking days to go😀
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