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Sunday, 20 October 2013

Day 62 /Day 63....New Boots arrived!

Left refuge at 9am and enjoyed walking through a lovely forest - an odd shower of rain but a great day for walking.  Stopped at Gourbera for my usual lunch of coffee and bread. Continued my walk to St Paul les Dax. Was getting very excited about my new boots arriving - booked into my room and had a bath. The hotel is next to Lac du Christ and I went a walk round it - there was some kind of festival going on with lots of music, traditional dancing and entertainers on stilts - there was a real buzz about the place. 
Went back to my room and to my surprise there was a knock and there were my boots - I was delighted and it was great to see Nora too, of course! She had got a plane to Bordeaux and hired a car and made her way down - no bother to Wonder Woman!  We're booked in here a couple of nights and I going to have a break for a couple of days - I've been walking everyday for 20 days - so it will be good to have a rest and also I'll need to try to break the new boots in a bit. My old ones have a hole right through the sole.  
By the way there is a bike shop right across the road here and all I seem to hear is the sound of posers on Harleys - I wish I was out on my BSA 650 - there are some great roads for biking and the weather is perfect for biking.
Nora was saying that people were leaving comments on my blog but unless they are 'published' I'm not seeing them - I think you have to log in with your email address so that I can see them.

2 comments:

  1. I was reading this post Wondering why you had booked yourself into a hotel until I read about Nora meeting you with your new boots. Hope you have a few nice days off and thst those boots makes the remainder of the walk a little easier

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  2. Hey Frank. Looks like I've missed the chance to look you up. I've had a bit of trouble and had to move house and I've no internet now. I'm really impressed with your progress and with some luck you can get over the pyrennees before the weather gets too serious. Enjoy the rest and stay lucky.
    Respect, Eddie.

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