Today was not raining! Big improvement. After the usual fitful jetlag night, headed to NoGlu for breakfast and the bussed over to Isle St. Louis to pick up my hiking poles from Atsu and John. Parked those back at the hotel and then hopped up bus up to the upper Marais and tracked down Adrian Leeds for a brief chat at her favorite cafe. She was super busy, but at least we made contact. Sometime during lunch, it turned out that the scheduled strike for Thursday was going to cancel all trains in the direction I needed to go. Normally, I would just delay for a day, but “Walk The Camino” has 11 nights of hotels and meals and bag transport booked for me, and trying to shift all of this is kind of a non starter. The upshot after much back and forth on What’s app with them in Scotland was the suggestion to fly to Rodez and taxi to Conques from there. So, did find a flight, expensive compared to the trains 28 euros versus 230euros for the flight, but looks promising. I was up Thursday morning at 5:30am and at Orly by 6:30am. Much nicer and smaller than CDG. Anyway, checked in, through security and waiting for boarding to start. Did have to, god forbid, check a bag, but it’s a small airplane and had my poles and Swiss Army knife. Luckily now have an AirTag in there and it is a non stop flight. Weather in Conques not at all promising with high percentage of rain forecast for the rest of the day and tomorrow. If any of you are ever thinking of traveling without a working cell phone, give up that thought right away. I was able to book my flight and pay on my phone, cancel the train and get a refund, and, haven’t quite finished filing a travel interruption claim with Worldnomads, with luck they will absorb the cost of the airfare.