Day 12: Faycelles to Brengues 22 Kilometers

Awoke in our sheep silo and enjoyed a petite dejenuer delivered by our gracious host.  Said goodbye to our little oasis and hit the trail.  Today holds much excitement as we leave the GR 65 and take the valley route that follows the Cele River.  Coffee stop was great and then we hit the valley.  Great walk with new views led us to a river cathedral where we had a picnic.  After, we crossed a bridge and the sign for our town pointed left but the trail said right.  The trail took us straight up and we wondered whether it would be worth it.  It was.  The trail took us on the ledge of a rock face overlooking the river valley.  Breathtaking.  And then, we look up on the cliff and there's a fortress built into the rocks.  Crazy!  We later found our place which was decent but had a very good dinner of root vegetable soup with chicken and rice! Hadn't had chicken since home. 

Had one hiccup today as we left our electrical adapter at Faycelles.  The hostess there said she would post it ahead if she had a place to send it so we booked a place two days away in Cahor where she could send it.  

Gite La Brenguoise. A work in progress, very clean. Two bunk beds in each room with a bathroom between the two. Host cooked a fine dinner.

Day 11: Montredon to Faycelles 24K

We woke in our cute farmhouse, had bread and coffee and were on our way. The morning was cool and the sky blue. We saw three churches on the way to Figeac, Chapelle de Guirande with 12th century frescos, Saint Felix and Saint-Jean Mirabel. Then on to Figeac, where we resupplied and did a walking tour of the town and had a picnic lunch and were on our way (Side Note: the last two days we have encountered these public toilettes that we have dubbed "Spaceships" as they are automated and fully stainless steel on the inside which automatically lower the toilet seat upon entering and completely pressure wash and disinfect upon leaving).  We are now in our amazing accommodations. An old shepherd's sheep barn "La Casselle", renovated for sleeping. Although we had run into a little trouble trying to book ahead several days ago, we have had no problems the last several days and the places we have gotten have been superb and the people have been very helpful and hospitable.

Yesterday we stumbled upon some of that "Camino Magic" or simply crazy coincidence.  When we were in Conques we saw a woman who looked very familiar.  We both thought she could be someone we saw as we walked last year in Spain.  We passed her yesterday morning on the climb out of the city and we asked her about seeing her last year.  She is Italian and her English is not great but she at first said she didn't walk the way last year.  We ended up in the same Gite last night and when we talked she told us she had indeed walked last year but on the Camino Madrid.  Doing that she also spent several days on the route we took on the Roman road out of Sahagun and our paths indeed did overlap.  

Gite:  Chambre d'hôtes La Caselle.  Amazing little place as we are sleeping in a separate space for two with bathroom. Clean. Short half kilometer to town for dinner..nice walk in good weather. Beautiful views.