Day 2: La Libaudié to Albugue
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 To avoid confusion let me mention here that the ‘place names’ in the titles of the posts ‘Walking in the Vallée du Tarn’ are the names of the actual houses I stayed at. When you book…
Walking
Day 1: La Bouysse to La Libaudié
Tuesday, April 25th, 2016 I found this walking holiday with Franse Valleientocht after doing a google search in Dutch instead of English, and the idea of staying with Dutch speaking hosts appealed to me. It’s a ‘chambre d’hotes/table d’hotes’ formula whereby you walk from house…
Walking in the Aveyron / Vallée du Tarn region in France – Day 0: Albi
Sunday, April 24, 2016 After a few days emotion laden days in Eeklo / Zuienkerke /Gent with family and friends – it was the first anniversary of my dear brother’s, Stefaan, death – I headed towards Albi. The journey went…
Day 12: Monmouth to Chepstow
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 What to say about this last walking day. It turned out to actually be the longest day, distance wise; not walk day 10. The itinerary I received from Contours gave the daily walking distance, measured from lodging…
Day 11: Pandy to Monmouth
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 We said goodbye to Sandra our lovely host, from the wonderfully nice, and a little different ‘Lancaster Arms’, after breakfast and hit the trail just before 8am. Did I need to mention that it was a…
Day 10: Hay-on-Wye to Pandy
Monday, October 12th, 2015 After a bit of arm wrestling the evening before Luc and I managed to get breakfast organized for 7:30am (instead of 8am suggested by John). We had a long day ahead – distance wise the longest…
Rest Day 2: Hay-on-Wye
Sunday, October 11th Breakfast was somewhere between 8:30am and 9am; together with 4 other guests staying at ‘Rest for the Tired’. I went for a morning stroll around lovely, quaint Hay-on-Wye. The small town is the National Book Town of…
Day 9: Kington to Hay-on-Wye
Saturday, October 10th, 2015 As expected the pub was a bit noisy the night before, being Friday night and rugby world cup (the All Blacks beat Tonga) and all that. Still i slept ok. The earliest they served breakfast was…
Day 8: Knighton to Kington
Friday, October 9th, 2015 Same morning routine: alarm at 6:15am, breakfast at 7am – Bernadine kept me company, very nice. Before I walked out the door she showed me the guestbook entry from Louise and Bill Paxton, of which I took…
Day 7: Cwm for Brompton Crossroads to Knighton
Thursday, October 8th, 2015 This was the day that announced itself as quite possibly the hardest one of my walk; and some walkers I’d met going the other way had hinted at that as well. And it lived up to…
Day 6: Welshpool to Cwm for Brompton Crossroads
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 With the promise of an easy day I aimed to be on the trail at 8am instead of 7:30am. Porridge for breakfast, and ready to go. I’d ordered a cab at the Royal Oak in Welshpool…
Day 5: Trefonen to Welshpool for Buttington
Tuesday October 6th, 2015 I didn’t sleep to well the night before, but not because of the B&B, room or bed, which were in order very welcoming, nice and cozy and comfy. Maybe it was the second cup of tea…
Day 4: Llangollen to Trefonen
Monday, October 5th, 2015 Breakfast at 7am and Mike took me to my starting point for my walk. Well, actually, on my request he took me about 2km further, to where the Path left the road. I figured with the…
Day 3: Clwyd Gate to Llangollen
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 As expected sleeping above a pub would be, last night’s rest wasn’t as sound(proof) as the previous nights. The Druid Inn quieted down around 10:30pm but then some guests of the Inn, who, I think, had…
Day 2: Bodfari to Clwyd Gate
Friday, October 2nd, 2015 I slept really well that night. I woke up at 3:15am, but mind you, I went to bed at 7:50pm so that was already more than 7hours. Bit too early to get up, so turned around…