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[QUOTE="lovingkindness, post: 68783, member: 7570"] [color=#0000BF][size=5][b]Day 272 ....one kiss too many [/b][/size][/color] Hi there, I,ve just strolled into La Reole. It,s about 30 degrees outside and and and and.............I,ve devolved beyond a sweaty mess into a blob. I,m sitting in the air-conditioned Biblioteque reviving, reading emails and facebook entries and 'stuffing' my self on a freebie cyberspace fix. From Gargilesse to Perigueux I did my best to be compliant and embrace a Cooperative Learning Experience. Each day I set off conscientiously with my custom made map and detailed little blue guide in my pocket. I followed it carefully from the very top of the page to its bottom, arriving effortlessly at a Gites de Pélerin along with The Others.....I've had enough......Pélerin are great fun during the day. They are interesting and unusual, a bit high on fresh air and occassionally demented. But by the time they have walked 26 kilometers in the sweltering heat and expounded the meaning of life, death and everything in-between, by the time they have tired you out with their convoluted tangents and longwinded descriptions of heroic feats and evils overcome, Pélerin do not make good bed mates. They are exhausted, they snore and they are immodest. The gites along this route are basic, 4-6 beds in a tiny room plus shower and cooking facilities. Sometimes extra Pélerin are crammed in, sleeping on the floor. Life becomes chaotic. Tranquility and silence disappear. By the time I reached Sorges, one step before Perigueux, I was in deep revolt and desperate, feeling caged and panicked and stressed. My sense of personal space felt infringed and everynight I spent hours trying not to hyperventilate. At Sorges it took all my resolve to walk through the gite door ........... and when I did a manic Hospitalera grabbed me in a sweaty embrace and slobbered flabby kisses on my cheek..........Then she said, staring at me with weird looking eyes, [i]I think you are strange. I don,t like you. But I forgive myself for feeling this way about you.[/i] I stared at her in horror. She then told me to repeat after her, please: [i]I love myself, I love myself, I love myself. [/i]She told me I must chant these words and some other mantra every day as I walked. Not ****** likely. I stood there rigid with shock, doing my best not to sink my teeth into her fleshy arm and kick her in the shins. 5 men stood by trying not to laugh, out of reach and no *%# use. I decided there qnd then, That's it. To hell with my sore shoulder and tired feet I'll purchase a tent and run free. I,ll dissappear forever into the wilds of France and sleep with the snakes and lizards and frogs. [color=#0000BF]-Ropeable[/color] [/QUOTE]
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