Shared Illusions

This will be a short post tonight.  After two days of rest (which amounted to twenty miles of walking through Nimes checking out the various high points of the city), we headed off to complete our hike of the Chemin de St Gilles.  We will catch up on the Nimes visit in the next few days.

The trail today was mostly (read almost all) on pavement.   As for me,  three was nothing of note on the trip except

1. It is the last stage of the Regordane, and
2. There was not a generator factory in Gènèrac.
3. New shoe insoles make a big difference when walking on pavement.

Paula will have a different perspective and will uploading her observations soon.

Here is today’s graphic.

If you wish to see the recap video,  the link is here.

This is the endpoint of the Chemin, Abbatiale Saint-Gilles du Gard.

Here are a couple of happy,  if not relieved, people marking their arrival at the Abbey. 

We celebrated the completion of our journey with another great meal at our hotel.

I was trying to get a photo of the scores of swallows flying around.   Here is Paula very pleased with herself for successfully photo bombing the occasion.  Yes, that is an umbrella hat, worn by all the fashion conscious pelerins.

Tomorrow, we head to Arles, which is thirteen miles away.  However,  the phrase “you can’t get there from here” is operative here.  Tomorrow is the Fete de le Ascention, which is a big deal here so there is no public transportation available.   if there was public transportation,  it would take two hours and three modes to get there.   We have been both encouraged to and dissuaded from walking there and we decided to pay 50 Euros for a taxi.

We will have more time for composing more stories  tomorrow evening

More later.