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    Miam-Miam Dodo or Don't?

    I'm near Cahors now, not doing the Camino but on holiday and doing short circular walks each day. The MMD has been great with maps and distances for me in planning each day. The 2017 edition is in two parts now. There are a lot of walkers here and at the cafes at lunchtime more than half are...
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    LIVE from the Camino Warning - Diversions on Cahors to Montquc Route

    I think the "danger" is just that it is on the main road. The caterpillars should be mostly gone now. There is a sign on the way into the woods warning about them. Apparently each butterfly lays 30, 000 eggs which eat their way through the box hedges and they breed 3 times this summer...a...
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    LIVE from the Camino Warning - Diversions on Cahors to Montquc Route

    Saturday morning 9th Sept: Torrential rain all night and still raining now but lighter. The track through the woods has a steep 1km descent which I imagine is treachorous this morning, the road will be safer today.
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    LIVE from the Camino Warning - Diversions on Cahors to Montquc Route

    OK have double checked, the diversion seems to be just to take you off the main road. You leave the road and travel south through the woods and join up with the main route again with about 200m left on roadway before a nice trail again. You can stick to roadway if you want. Woods add about 0.5km...
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    Planning for 2018, Random Questions

    Exactly my thoughts
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    Planning for 2018, Random Questions

    The woods into Montcuq by Tracying posted Sep 6, 2017 at 7:47 AM
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    Planning for 2018, Random Questions

    I'm here now and very much in holiday mode still, which means too much food and wine and lots of lazing around. However I went for a short 3km walk yesterday and ended up doing about 500m on the GR65. According to the book the actual route is about 2.5km from me and as I headed out yesterday I...
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    Empty trail? no pilgrims?

    I am just before Montcuq (on holiday not an actual Camino). There is a diversion before Montcuq that brings you south through the woods. While walking there yesterday I encountered 1 single gentleman walking and 4 French people at about 10am. Then at lunchtime in Lauzerte lots of pairs of...
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    LIVE from the Camino Warning - Diversions on Cahors to Montquc Route

    Also was told this area is full of these small chapels and if the door us locked the key is normally hidden close by....always look for a flower pot or if not a stone that it could be under. I have no proof of this, just passing on local knowledge
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    LIVE from the Camino Warning - Diversions on Cahors to Montquc Route

    Hi I'm actually right here now. I don't know why the route is diverted but was in those woods yesterday and will be again today. The "worms" are all gone. It seems to have been a plague of caterpillars that have attacked all the local box hedges. The caterpillars eat their way through the hedge...
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    Planning for 2018, Random Questions

    Leaving on the ferry on Thursday and will be in Montcuq Sunday evening. I have the MMD book and have 5 days walking planned. Just not sure if darling husband will cooperate. And I won't walk if its too hot the first week, it takes me a while to adjust to the heat.
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    Demi pension meals

    We had to "eat everything" and as a child when it was discovered that I just couldn't the rule was relaxed to "eat the meat and the whatever else". By 10 I just stopped eating all meat and fish....I couldn't chew or swallow them, it took a while for my Mam to understand this. But by 12 she was...
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    LIVE from the Camino Warning - Diversions on Cahors to Montquc Route

    Thanks, we will ask locally. It might nearly be worth seeing anyway.
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    Demi pension meals

    Really good to know, thanks. I have no problem paying €15 if I get some salad, bread, wine and good conversation and am not hungry when I leave. But when a restaurant has a €30 menu price which has steak and duck and I just have frites and green salad I do feel hard done by. Anyway, with all...
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    Demi pension meals

    Thanks so much, great info which is saved to refer to for the future, and one or two noted for holiday this September.
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    Demi pension meals

    Thanks, yes I have discovered that...in France you are not allowed to "not like" something. Even my mother in law (who is French) had forbidden me from saying "I don't eat..." when dining in her house when brother in law was still a child. We had an interesting time once when looking at a house...
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    Demi pension meals

    Thanks Jill, good info to have. I am planning for 2018 camino which is walk Le Puy to Cahors alone, stop for a family holiday in Cahors for 10 days and then Cahors to SJPDJ again alone. If have access to bread, croissant, frites and chocolat then I wont fade away and just need to make sure...
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    Demi pension meals

    Sorry, back again. so I said....yes, I actually love Puy lentils and have 5kg bag in the kitchen now Ive picked the Le Puy because it goes through my favourite parts of France, I don't really have any desire to go to Spain posting in bits as it keeps getting lost
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    Demi pension meals

    Rushing out, will be back later
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    Demi pension meals

    Arrgh, I lost my post

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