lovingkindness
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
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... skidding in mud and slime, hour after hour on a cold foggy day. A couple of shortcuts to end it all.
Circuit no. 239 (16 kms): Montaillard via Barbaste - Lausseignan - Xaintrailles.
http://cdt47.media.tourinsoft.eu/upload/Fiche-Rando-239-Lavardac-2020.pdf
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... in the middle ages a rather nasty goat's cheese with an acrid bite to it was made by the peasants of Lausseignan. It was said to be capable of ulcerating a delicate palette. In those days the area was covered in twiggy heather bushes and cistus - good for goats but nothing much else. Today the heather and cistus have been replaced by vineyards and pine forrests. I didn't see any goats...
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J.-B. Truaut. Lavardac et ses environs. 1851.
Circuit no. 239 (16 kms): Montaillard via Barbaste - Lausseignan - Xaintrailles.
http://cdt47.media.tourinsoft.eu/upload/Fiche-Rando-239-Lavardac-2020.pdf
![20240127_133943.jpg 20240127_133943.jpg](https://caminoforum-4df7.kxcdn.com/data/attachments/161/161506-347cc1d28fb508fa430d82e9bd914f70.jpg)
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... in the middle ages a rather nasty goat's cheese with an acrid bite to it was made by the peasants of Lausseignan. It was said to be capable of ulcerating a delicate palette. In those days the area was covered in twiggy heather bushes and cistus - good for goats but nothing much else. Today the heather and cistus have been replaced by vineyards and pine forrests. I didn't see any goats...
![20240128_225717.jpg 20240128_225717.jpg](https://caminoforum-4df7.kxcdn.com/data/attachments/161/161510-3a9e648b3d1eff45f4575aa2e5ce470a.jpg)
J.-B. Truaut. Lavardac et ses environs. 1851.
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