Arzacq-Arraziguet
It was the first morning that I had to use my night lights on my forehead. Mornings are getting darker, coming out from town was hard because of the hill. After the hill, I entered a great park with a lake. It was so calm that I can hear the fish jumping in the water.
Passing the park, I hit to a tunnel, where I did not see my marker. I continue for 500 meters and hit a duck farm. There were all ducklings. Beautiful golden color. I proceed on the road for one km, and the “toros” where waiting for me. This area of France is passionate about bulls. It is not only Spain. Every village has a bull arena.
I stopped at a cross roads to look at my map, when a farmer was passing in his car and helped me to get oriented. I was just 100 feet out of track.
I walked for four hours until arrived to Miramont-Sensacq. I immediately look for a bakery for breakfast. The first one was so charming. I said : bonjour, but it was empty. After couple minutes a wonderful old lady came out. I asked if she had coffee, but she said no. I said thank you, and continue. At the end of town there was a more modern bakery with everything. I bought a chocolatinne, expresó, bread, and an orange for lunch. I had my cured salami. I sat for fifteen minutes and ate my chocolatinne, and drank my coffee. There was a short cut from this village to the next. I read my map, and went by the short way.
The next town was Pimbo. It is a shining little village. When I arrived a young man was cleaning street, mowing the grass, cleaning everything to perfection. There is a nice restaurant, coffee house with everything here. In the middle of the plaza, there were two picnic tables for the Pelerins. I ate my lunch here: bread , salami, orange , and two pellegrino waters that I bought at the cafe. The tree canopy was well trim and human designed.
The church entrance arch was unique. It has three small figures at the top. A couple hugging, a couple looking forward, and a couple back to back. I called it: the marriage! Ha!ha!
I went back to the restaurant, and asked the chef the meaning of the figures, but he didn’t know. He started asking three other residents, but no one new the meaning. One of them called the historian of the village to discovered that they were three of the seven capital sins: lust, glutton, and wrath. Any way, there was something about marriage there!
From Pimbo, there was a deep inclination. It is better to run them. When you walk them, it is very painful. From there was all flat by corn fields. I tried to get close to the water sprinklers on the fields to get wet.
Today the sun was visible at 11:30am. The morning was cloudy and great to walk, but when the sun comes up, I put sun block immediately. The water from sprinklers was cold. I enjoyed it several times.
Now to arrive to Arzacq-Arraziguet, I gave all my lungs. It is in the top of a hill. Arriving, I went to the bank, and stopped at the first restaurant for a Monaco. It is so refreshing.
The gité was next door. It has great accommodations, and the food was delicious, and the company superb! I have started to love southern France duck.