Cahors to Lascabanes, 14km 10/07/22

Cahors has it going on, lots of young people, a nice old town, lots of plazas and cafes and none of this “It’s after 2:00pm” nonsense. Town of about 20,000 people with a river wrapped around it so lots of bridges. One of which is the best preserved medieval bridge in France, even has 3 towers! My Hotel was a wonderful place run by a family and obviously well cared for dating from 1911, Hotel Terminus, clearly situated near the train station. Because I had Demi-pension, dinner was at the hotel, so Manfred and Thomas joined me. Ended up being an excellent meal with a great bottle of cote du Rhône. If I were advising future Pilgrims, this would be the place to take a day off. I ended up taking a half day off, walking around the sites of the old town, and then having a taxi drop me 10km down the road to make my day more reasonable. It did get very hot and I was hurting towards the end of the 4 hrs. Of walking that I did do. Also, for the first time, in what must be thousands of miles of walking I got a blister on the lateral side of my right heal. Nothing too horrible, but of course my blister stuff was in my transported bag having never needed it before. I do have a very wide selection of things, so we will see what works. The Gite I’m in tonight was way off the trail and uphill! Les Clos de Gamel, but it does have 2 swimming pools and they make their own wine, so there is that!

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