Blessed are the peacemakers.

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The Americans had a bomber (B36) designed to deliver the bomb to Russia - anywhere without refueling, it was called the Peacemaker - the killers think they're the messengers of God. Deliverance at the end of a gun. The brutal world we're in is truly a mistake.

A friar is a monk of the road: take the sacred space with you. No building is needed.

A couple weakness of purchases: vin blanc Fallacy, coeur du boeuf tomatoes and fromage du Tarn. One pure cow and the other 3 milks - both spectacular. The rip off of the day is possibly the train from Albi via Gaillac. Probably because it's crosses a dreaded frontier. From Tarn I head north into Lot. The weather has definitely lost its edge now which suggests that I should follow the path back along to Conques Abbey de Saint Foy.

Tomorrow I am walking back along the GR 65 to Golinhac as last time I lost the plot on the Aubrac about there and now I consider I walked very little after Figeac. Such a liar I must be! But it must be donativo entirely. Because there is a lovely town here. Figeac feels charming on the Cele River. Yesterday at the Abbey really reset my device - a hard reset.

It's only three nights since Lodève but it feels like many more. France has so many rivers dividing it up and a lot of mountains in the centre from which the water pours: Evian, Volvic, etc are fed from up here. The multiplicity of aquifers really confuses me.

The cheese and the wine is the best in France too. The edges of France are a little too pleasant - and overtaken by the likes of Rothschild, Mouton, etcetera. The core of the hexagon is the mystery of France. I must find the same in Germany - I am not being fair to it with my Gallic generosity. Yet I think there are still those here who would never leave to visit the next river valley. It is a question I could never answer. There is so much to see in one life that to exclude it all is a very strange concept for me!

Last time here I found "Swallows in the Heatwave". The same gesture is true. 2013 and 2015. I've actually sat in this square before. I am a fool - once in a life is entire.

Bon route. There is food later at the Carmel. I brought wine to the affair. But why? It is just to add to the variety!

I might've lost my spoon. A spoon salesman would be useful now! Right here and right now. Spoooons!

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