Day 7: Onward to Montgros

 Pam and James are here! They caught up to us on our 7th day. It was a beautiful
morning until minutes after we all started walking when it started to rain. We ducked into a luckily placed cafe and donned our rain gear, only to have to ditch it when the rain disappeared in 20 minutes or so.

The terrain was wonderful. We walked through farm fields filled with wild flowers and momma cows with their babies.

Threatening clouds hung close and turned to a downpour after a few hours on the trail. We were really happy to arrive at our chambres d'hotes, wring ourselves out, rest for an hour, and then re-group over cafe au lait in the common room with our sketch books on hand.

Dinner was excellent again. All local agricultural fare and great cheese.
Breakfast coming at 7:30, too soon. Time to sleep now. Please, no rain in the morning.

The farm houses in this region are called ferme bloc . . . they are large and rambling. People, tractors, and animals all live within the same extended building, not in the same space of course.

These beautiful yellow wildflowers are gorse. They are blooming all along the trail since we first started walking.

Most of the public facilities were more accommodating than this one, thank goodness.

Note the reflections in the pond.

The rain was a deluge when we arrived in Montgros. Thank goodness we had a reservation at this charming Maison de Rosalie. Many others wished they could stay but had to walk on a few miles to Nasbinals, the bigger town. We took this pic in the morning as we headed out to Nasbinals.

We had a warm, dry evening with more good regional food, beer and wine.