A semi-traditional petite dejeuner started our day at the convent (yogurt and fruit added!). A short convo with our host, Pascal, and we were on our way. Saw the cat statue on our way out of town, a tribute to Angeline, who legends say saved the village in an interesting story (too long to explain). Walked for quite a bit until we reached the city of Condom (no typo). Daily business, food procuring and coffee before we were back on our way. The trails off the road are still a bit muddy. Not our fave but we keep hoofing it. We had a crossroads to find where we would take a direct route to our destination town. We stopped at a crossroads and were consulting our guide when a lady Pelerin came along. We told her where we were headed and she advised us to take the road north. We started walking when along came a young man who asked us where we were going. When we explained, he told us we were going towards the busy road. We had turned too soon. We talked further and discovered that he was the son of the lady who runs the Gite where we are staying tonight! Our guardian angel, Michael! We went back to the path and eventually we reached Larressingle, the home of a really cool castle with a moat. We pique-niqued in town and then had coffee and a superb crepe with caramel ice cream. Michael and his mother, Martine came by while we were there. We followed them back to her Gite. Martine is a former Pelerin who has walked the Camino, her first time being 1974 when there was little infrastructure. She has a wonderful place and is so sympathetic to the true Pelerins. She became irritated when four "pilgrims" made a reservation and only one was really walking and the others came by car. She had turned down several who were really walking. We had a wonderful rest and then were treated to a regional dish of Casseole(sp) that may have been the best dinner we've had yet in France.
Gite d'etape Halte Laressingle - clean, beautiful facilities, and fantastic dinner. Owner is very pilgrim friendly
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