Day 2 Montbonnet to Saugues 28K

The day of hills. Much climbing on this hot day. After our bread and jam breakfast we left the gite with 19 year old Jule. A young girl from Germany who spent a year as an exchange student in Bridgewater VA. She walked with us all day, but has gone to another gite tonight. 

The way was beautiful as always and we stopped for a picnic lunch of dried meat, cheese we bought from a fromagerie, and a piece of French bread. And a bit of chocolate to finish!  Made a couple of cool stops along the way.  Went up into this tiny chapel perched atop a high hill that was dedicated to St. James.  We also stopped in a chapel (Chappelle De La Madeline) that was basically a cavern that was faced in stone in the 17th century.  Both places were so fascinating.  Finally arrived in town and were met with more great hospitality.  Our gite is nice...not a lot of character, but clean.

Gite: Centre d'accueil La Margeride. Clean with a nice dinner...made better with our company of one French man, an Englishman who lives in France and 4 fun Canadians, who walked the French Camino (That's the Camino that crosses Spain).