Pilgrimage Pt.16.
Pilgrimage Pt.16. All of the simple things feel too expensive. Walking is free but not always easy. The roofs in Conques remind me of lizards scales and also of Gaudi in Barcelona. Very natural and pliable looking. Not at all regimented or manmade. The colours vary immensely from olive and grey to sandy, cream and blue. I take the donativo for tonight and the morning and tomorrow pay for my way at the Gîtes d'etape communal. Conques reminds me of Cesky Krumalov in the sense it is a museum only. Bierre is €3.30 for 25cl. Beautiful and historic and empty and a rip off; strings of souvenir shops: sold everywhere but made in China. ... Walked rapidly to destination for tonight. A little bit of a hicktown to say it's on a major crossing of the river Lot. Thought that Patric had sped like a bullet to Denzeville, but he stopped for a break; I didn't see him, but he said I looked miles away. We walked together for a while until he said his feet were tired and sat at the road...