Wisques, rain and exhaustion
With a solid day of walking behind me I am now at Notre Dames Abbeye Wisques. My sack is much too heavy. I will leave some things here and return for them on the 25th on route north again? If I leave my sleeping bag, bivvy and pillow I may not feel quite so oppressed by the end of the day? Will ask Soeur Lucie if I may return for one night, on my way north, at dinner. ... There are a group of French undergraduates in a house the Soeur's have apart for pilgrims. We shared dinner in the refectory and they helped me to get my request across to Soeur Lucie that it would be helpful if I could reduce the strain of the weight I was carrying? She's fine with me leaving it here to return on the day prior to departing back across the Channel and I can sleep here again. I am not up to another 100 kms with the backpack as it was. Yesterday I rushed because by noon it was getting heavier and heavier to get to the Abbey for around half three. ... Gathering around the breakfast table I ad...