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  1. Felice

    The House of the Rising Sun- in Conques

    Here's a translation of Le Pénitencier lyrics: The prison The prison gates Are going to close soon And there I will end my life Like other guys ended it For me, my mother gave Her wedding dress Can you ever forgive me? I made you cry too much The sun is not for us It's at night that we can...
  2. Felice

    The House of the Rising Sun- in Conques

    Thanks Raggy, shame it is such a short clip. Note how he checks his watch - that's because he stops for 10 o'clock to strike.
  3. Felice

    The House of the Rising Sun- in Conques

    Conques Abbey, May 2019. A wonderful unforgettable start to the second part of my Le Puy pilgrimage. Some music takes me immediately to a point in time sometimes long past. The House of the Rising Sun is now one of those pieces. So when I saw that Hilton Valentine had died, I played it at full...
  4. Felice

    How-to guide to the Le Puy route

    I agree with almost everything that you have written, Andy. My only disagreement is over bed bugs! We woke in our gîte in Saugues to find the b*****s in our beds and under our pillows. I walked the route in 3 stretches - Le Puy to Conques with my daughter last Sept, then Conques to Moissac in...
  5. Felice

    Struggling on the Le Puy

    Agree, Michael. This was brought home sharply to me when I walked the Célé Valley variant in May when I met several groups of French randonneurs, a number of whom had never even heard of the Chemin. Nice people, but their attitudes and priorities were subtly different.
  6. Felice

    Struggling on the Le Puy

    Hi Erin, hope you're feeling more positive and in a better place today. I start next week (Wed) from Moissac, so maybe our paths will cross! I can relate to how you feel. I walked Le Puy to Conques last Sept, but with my daughter so there was always someone to talk with! Then I went on to...
  7. Felice

    Where would you plan a rest day on the Le Puy route?

    As has already been said, the towns on the Le Puy route are not large. If you do the Celée Valley detour, make time to go to Peche Merle. Conques is a really touristy village, but nice to spend the night there. I will never forget my evening there: after the service, I did the tour of the...
  8. Felice

    What's the best map for an overview of the Le Puy Route?

    The maps.me app works without phone signal as you download the map, so at least you can always have a map with you. I recently walked the stretch from Conques to Moissac, via the Célé Valley. I was lulled into a false sense of complacency on the Célé part, as I had good signal every evening...
  9. Felice

    What's the best map for an overview of the Le Puy Route?

    As far as maps go, the nicest physical ones are in the Topo Guides, but it takes 3 of them to cover the entire route and they cost about £16 each, so a lot of £ and lbs! My daughter and I walked from Le Puy to Conques last year. We didn't really 'need' maps as the way was generally well signed...
  10. Felice

    Le Puy to Conques

    We walked from Le Puy to Conques in September last year. We had lovely weather - rather warm to begin with as we walked from Le Puy, then pleasant as we crossed the Aubrac plateau. We booked in advance every night. I had booked the first 4 nights several months before we set off, and was glad...
  11. Felice

    More accommodation questions

    We stayed at Le Ferme in Sept 2018 in Saugues. Nice communal meal, nice private room with facilities, apart from the unwanted extra guests - bedbugs!
  12. Felice

    Conques to Moissac: May or June?

    I'm starting from Conques, so won't be going over the Aubrac plateau. Hopefully that will make a bit of a difference in late May.
  13. Felice

    Conques to Moissac: May or June?

    Many French (and other French-speakers, esp. Belgians and Swiss) know more English than you know French. But it's their turf, eh? This dynamic is complicated by a French cultural preference to be perfect in all things or not at all. Once you demonstrate respect with a good-faith effort at...
  14. Felice

    Conques to Moissac: May or June?

    Consider making a brief detour to see Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, a famous little village on the top of a hill. But I recommend this only if you will visit there on a weekday. On the weekends there is a crush of tourists and tour busses. It's a day's walk fom the GR65. I stayed at a gite in Bach and...
  15. Felice

    Conques to Moissac: May or June?

    Thank you for all these replies. On the language side, last year I always started a request/booking etc in French as it's only polite to do so. How long the exchange lasted in French depended on how bad my french was, or how much English the other person wanted to speak. I was quite surprised...
  16. Felice

    Conques to Moissac: May or June?

    Thanks, Falcon. I've just looked up the French bank holidays for 2019, and there are the usual 2 in early May - Labour Day (May 1st) and V-E day (May 8th). Both fall on a Wed, so hopefully there will be less temptation to bridge the same weekend. I'll probably set off after the weekend after the...
  17. Felice

    Conques to Moissac: May or June?

    Last September, I walked from Le Puy to Conques, and really enjoyed the experience. This year I intend to walk on from Conques, as far as Moissac or beyond if I have time. The question is whether to go in May or June. May is more convenient for me, but I read somewhere that May is the month when...
  18. Felice

    Walking Le Puy route in May 2019

    I speak schoolgirl French. Maybe your school boy and my school girl can get together somewhere along the way...
  19. Felice

    Walking Le Puy route in May 2019

    I am sure ONE extra person could easily accommodated at the evening meal in a larger establishment, but 2 or more in a smaller, say 10 bed rural gîte? You'd need to be aware of the size of the place. Also, in Sept, we found that there were distinct 'bottlenecks' villages with no accommodation...
  20. Felice

    Walking Le Puy route in May 2019

    Just come back from 2 weeks walking between Le Puy and Conques. Lovely walk. Baggage transport: as well as La Malle Poste, there is also Transbagage (www.transbagages.com). We did not use them but saw plenty of people who did. One lady organised Transbagage for a transfer for the next day. I...

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