Philip's Blog

Wednesday 30th August

Yesterday's walk went horribly wrong in the afternoon. We missed the signs and ended up map reading our way through dense woodland to the hamlet where our gite was. Only it wasn't. The hamlet was the postal address, the gite was another hour away. We arrived at 8.30pm, the longest day's walk of the whole trip. It was too late for dinner, so we emptied all the food from our seven rucksacks and amazingly created a feast of smoked duck breast, paté, sausage, salad, bread, foie gras, mackerel fillets, tuna and three different types of cheese. We even persuaded the gite owner to sell us some red wine. It was like feeding the 5,000, we seemed to have more left at the end than we'd started with.