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Meanderings II
Day 8 - Wednesday, 2 October 2024 - Saint-Côme d'Olt to Estaing. ~21 klms,~ 176.3 klms total. This is a follow up to Meanderings I, which...
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Oct 6, 20242 min read
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Highways and byways
Day 11 - Saturday, 5 October 2024 - Conques to Livinhac-le-Haut. ~25.2 klms, total ~ 239.4 klms. Well actually, no highways at all, but...
pac
Oct 6, 20243 min read
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Easy/Hard - a problem to be solved??
Day 10 - Friday, 4 October 2024 - Espeyrac to Conques. A mere 12.3 klms, total ~214.2 klms. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a...
pac
Oct 5, 20243 min read
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Sensations
Day 9 - Thursday, 3 October 2024 - Estaing to Espeyrac. 25.6 klms; total ~201.9 klms We've averaged a little over 22klms/day so far for...
pac
Oct 4, 20243 min read
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Meanderings I
Day 8 - Wednesday, 2 October 2024 - Saint-Côme d'Olt to Estaing. ~21 klms,~ 176.3 klms total. I'm writing this from the commune of...
pac
Oct 3, 20241 min read
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Inspirations
Day 7 - Tuesday, 1 October 2024 - Saint-Chely-d'Aubrac to Saint Côme-d’Olt. ~16.7 klms, total ~155.3 klms. To dare is to lose one's...
pac
Oct 2, 20242 min read
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In Reverse
Day 6 - Monday, 30 September 2024 - Nasbinals to Saint-Chely-d' Aubrac (Bonnefon) - somewhere around 20 klms Total to date ~138.6 klms....
pac
Oct 1, 20244 min read
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Here Comes The Sun
Day 5 - Sunday, 29 September 2024 - Aumont-Aubrac to Nasbinals (~25.5 klms) It's amazing but not surprising that a change of weather...
pac
Sep 30, 20245 min read
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Crestfallen **
Day 4 - Saturday, 28 September 2024 - Lajo to Aumont -Aubrac (+/- 26 klms). ** (noun) - that devastating feeling of disappointment that...
pac
Sep 29, 20243 min read
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Monsters and Beasts
Day 3 - Friday, 27 September 2024 - Saugues to Lajo. 26.3 klms (ish). The area of Saugues, where we stayed last night, appears to have a...
pac
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Down, down ...
Day 2 - Thursday, 26 September 2024 - Montbonnet to Saugues. Officially 26.1 klms (likely a tad more). No, that heading is not a nod to...
pac
Sep 27, 20243 min read
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In Spirit
Day 1 - Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Le Puy-en-Velay to Montbonnet, 16.7 klms Those who know me well know that I have periodically...
pac
Sep 25, 20245 min read
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Country roads ...
Le Puy, France, 22 September 2024 No, not John Denver ... The realist in me understands the need for toll roads, but the idealist objects...
pac
Sep 24, 20247 min read
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All the light we [almost did not] see...
Saint Malo, France, 17 September 2024, and beyond “ Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,...
pac
Sep 20, 20243 min read
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72
England, UK, Sunday 15 September 2024 Those who know me a little better than others know that yesterday was my 72nd birthday. By the...
pac
Sep 15, 20244 min read
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T minus 100
Sunday 2nd June 2024 Today it's exactly 100 days until we board QF72 to Singapore and then on to Europe for the start of our next big...
pac
Jun 2, 20243 min read
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In photos
This will most likely be my last Via de la Plata blog post. New adventures call, and later this year I’ll walk the 750 klm Via...
pac
Apr 24, 20244 min read
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90 Days
It's now a little over 90 days since we walked into Santiago de Compostela at the end of around 1,000 klms on the road. Readers of this...
pac
Mar 2, 20242 min read
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20 days
It's 20 days since we returned to Oz. After our chauffeur driven ride home from Perth airport (thank you Chris), we returned to Perth the...
pac
Dec 3, 20234 min read
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Day 55 - Same Same But Different
Santiago de Compostela, Thursday 9th November. I had zero intention of blogging today. I said my virtual farewells yesterday, but then...
pac
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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