Day 20 Lauzerte- HALF WAY POINT!Woke up on Easter Sunday morning hoping for a wonderful golden sunrise, but no, the day was overcast, but it was mild. Fortunately it didn’t have the downcast appearance of Saturday. After lunch the sun appeared and we are currently spending the next 3 hours sitting in high class country accommodation, way above our normal experiences. This was brought about not by our choice, but because it’s Easter Sunday and every Gite in town was full!
Jan you would feel at home here and would be pleased Enda is relaxing. I didn’t have to shoot her today as she managed to make the journey , but unfortunately with some difficulty. We shall just have to wait and see how the leg is tomorrow morning. I am encouraging her to take the day off and catch me up by using transport, however, resistance is high. We are about 3km past the town of Lauzerte in the most charming of Chambres d’Hote. Lauzerte is a medieval town located (naturally) at the top of a significant climb. We enjoyed the old city which was holding a flower market at noon and we had a rather nice Easter lunch in a café. Enda had a great time looking after the owner’s young baby and was reluctant to move on. In today’s journey we covered 20km before we encountered any coffee or food, fortunately we had a couple of apples left and we managed to take a little bread and butter from the breakfast table. We had expected to find a small store last night that would sell us a few provisions, unfortunately one didn’t exist. Tomorrow appears to be a similar day as it’s Monday and so many towns and villages seem to honour St Monday. Clearly France’s favourite saint. Being Sunday we arrived at Lauzerte after the shops closed for the day at 12. The Camino didn’t provide me today with any insight into the meaning of Easter I was fortunate over the two preceding days. We sat in a church and had our own Easter service as we were too late for Mass. Yesterday I described some of the country we passed through as the bad lands. Today the scenery changed and we are in more lush countryside, where the emphasis is on crops. Instead of car sale yards (which you wouldn’t expect out here) we are surprised at the number of huge tractor sales outlets with a massive choice of equipment. This area is clearly prosperous and we walked passed many immaculately maintained and lived in Chateaux. Wonderful drive ways and gardens which would require much care. You may recall Mr Hockey asking us to be lifters rather than leaners and to keep working until 70. Well I guess most of you thought that is all well and good for some but how about those engaged in heavy manual work. Yesterday we found a man that proved Mr Hockey correct. The uncle of the lady who owned the Gite demonstrates it is possible to be gainfully employed in latter years . The uncle lives in the Gite and is aged 91. We saw him bent over and pushing a heavily loaded wheel barrow down to a field where he was planting vegetables. This was not a backyard vegetable garden but a full size commercial field with him as the farmer!.
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