Which do you prefer hiking up a mountain or hiking down a mountain?

I ask because we literally went up and down all day long. I don’t think there was a single flat place that we walked.

Upon leaving Saint Andre en Morvan we had a steep descent and immediately a steep ascent. We had to take our jackets off because it was very warm today. Noël walked in a tshirt all day. And at one point we said we needed to take the legs off of our pants, because it was so warm. The ascent/descent repeated for thirteen kms. The last descent and ascent were perhaps the steepest and brought us into Merigny l’Église.

Our host helped arrange not only lunch but also dinner with the restaurant in town. (It closed at 3:30 so getting dinner was a treat!) the restaurant owner even prepared us sandwiches for tomorrow as well as breakfast. I mean we paid for all of it but it gave us rest in our minds about what we were going to do.

There were two men in the restaurant when we arrived and there was a very lively conversation about the Camino. Our lunch was amazing!!

We were told that we could ask a resident about getting into the church. Alas he didn’t answer the door. But we were able to get three stamps in this tiny, lovely, peaceful village.

Tomorrow we will travel 21 kms and there will be no stops except the ones we make. And where we are staying has no cafes or stores. Our host said she would go to the store for us. We gave her a grocery list.

We continue to struggle finding accommodation and yet when we do we are finding overwhelming hospitality!!

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