Lauzerte to Moissac, 14km walked 10/09/22

Dinner at the Hotel du Quercy in Lauzerte ended up being quite excellent. The hotel is old an creaky and rooms are pretty bare, but dinner was great. Vegetable potage, followed by a salad with pieces of duck, followed by a steak, followed by a cheese course. The owners turned out to be an English/French couple and had run the hotel for 31 years. In another typical Frenshism I called the local taxi company and asked for a taxi to take me a ways down the road the next morning, and they told me they weren’t do any taxis the whole weekend….no explanation as to why. Anyway, the owner had pity on me and took me a ways this morning, beautiful drive and a pleasant conversation, thank you Sophie! The upshot of this was that instead of a very very long day, I had a relatively short day, only 3 hours of walking, which meant that I arrived in Moissac just before lunch time. My original hotel had closed, so “Walk The Camino” rebooked me in the hotel Chapon Fin, which is a fairly fancy 3 star in a perfect location, thank you! Had a decent burger and frites for lunch and some down time before going to explore the very large Abby for which Moissac is known. The cloister is quite exceptional. Well, overall, I have to say that I’m relieved that the daily walking part of this trip is over, think of it as more than 10 half marathons in a row while carrying more than 20 lbs. and you have some idea of what it was. Maybe I’m just getting older, but I’ll have to see about reducing stage length a bit on future trips. Tomorrow, I have the morning in Moissac and then I have an all afternoon, three different trains ride up to Sarlat la Caneda in the Dordogne.

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