go after a restful night in a little too short, I bed to breakfast to the inn. Bread, coffee and cake. I usually have breakfast and a piece of bread with honey in the room and then go drink a coffee. Today, then a proper breakfast. Last night and this morning I am the only guest, and was well supplied and more than adequate. I thank the hostess, who is also coaching the Gite.
Full of energy, it goes in the cold on the road. At the well left of the picture yet, I fill my water bottle.
The sun came out this morning at its best with beautiful color games.
The air is icy cold. Unlike the last few days it's a dry cold. I do not feel cold as unpleasant as it does not creep into every crevice, like a cold fog. With this weather there is usually a very good distance vision, so even today.
The Raul said yesterday well with difficult road conditions. The road is completely covered with ice and impassable. Even the snow on the edge left by the wayside is totally frozen. It remains for me after a few attempts have no other choice than the right to climb over the barbed wire and run in deep snow.
Here appearances are deceptive, the way is icy. The thin layer of snow covered parts of the Eisstellen. The ice can be seen through the frozen mud sometimes quite brown, and as such is difficult.
It's still wonderful to be here in this silence. Sometimes I hear in the distance, the forest workers, otherwise it is very quiet.
It goes through forests, in deeper layers of the trees are free of snow.
similar So well were the areas that have withdrawn hermit to live alone, in accordance with the nature.
An old mill on the valley floor, probably a sawmill. Water and wood are plentiful.
Then again foggy. At night it would be difficult to run well here. missed a signpost, and one could easily spend hours running in circles without realizing it.
a crossroads, even laid down flowers. In Germany, the simple crosses are on the road often atonement crosses or stones murder in France, they will probably have a similar function.
"atonement crosses are monuments of medieval law. They were a fulfillment of contracts of atonement, which closed between two warring parties were to end a blood feud for an act committed murder or manslaughter. The majority of atonement crosses is designed in a cross, often is the murder weapon or a device of the professional typical disembodied carved into the stone. In rare cases there are embarked dates. Text refers to any real atonement cross from the 13th-16. Century. The simple peasant could not read it anyway, so dominated by image representations. With the introduction of the cervical court order of Emperor Charles V in 1533, private arrangements were no longer tolerated, in its place, the ordinary court which sentenced the offender under the new law. With the introduction of this new law the atonement of Treaties was officially abolished lived, but according to local custom or 16th through the whole Century continued, until the 17th Century speaks out against them. " (Source http://www.suehnekreuz.de)
still life.
a bike lane! Many pilgrims make the pilgrimage route by bicycle. Whether it's that time of year bicycle pilgrimage there?
horses in the pasture, I can not see from here their race. There will be a local race, cold-sensitive and not afraid.
Tence , Haute-Loire, Région Auvergne , 2,900 inhabitants.
Before I came am by Montfaucon-en-Velay , there have been at a cafe, the path planning for today and tomorrow. If I create more than Tence today, tomorrow I can probably go to Le-Puy-enVelay. There I will take a break and look at me in silence the city.
Tence is a beautiful place, I wonder if I should stay for one night. I decisionmaking but instead move on. The route from here to Le-Puy is too big for a stage and too small for two. In retrospect, this is
planning be a mistake.
The first card is by now, I personally used the card number 50 ( Carte de Promenade , St-Etienne - Le-Puy-En-Velay, 1:100,000 from Institut Géographique National, IGN ).
Tence from the river Lignon out.
Then the trail climbs back out of the valley. My feet hurt a bit and I'm tired. There were in addition to the pure distance some meters today, I sit in my bones. to go from here about ten kilometers. The goal is St-Jeures, a year-round Gite. It is now shortly after 15 clock. Depending on the way condition I create about 4 km per hour. I would like to be there 17 clock, so that in any case someone is to be found. So put on pace.
It is getting colder, the wind freshened.
Le croix de Couvet reads the inscription. The Cross of Couvet on Chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostella , the St. James.
St-Jeures ! I sweat and evaporate happy to rest on me.
The small sign on the table does not escape me. Prohibition signs on signposts me as a historical conscious Germans are not particularly sympathetic, even if I only the sense to understand.
Stationnement of Nomades
est interdit Le Stationnement the nomad sur l'ensemble de la Commune. Une aire a été spécialement au aménagée FANJARO Route d 'YSSINGEAUX.
I am currently the nomads and vagabonds Law related. Well, we schau'n there is something here for a mood.
The matron of the gite leads a small grocery store. I stumble into the store and ask if I might have the key. Non , ferme. Not again, such an action as in Montgontier, but it remains. I look at the clock a few minutes to five. Today I can not make it, again dranzuhängen half a leg. Across the street is le Mairie, the mayor's office. Fortunately, another lady is there. I describe the situation and represents her that I was not allowed in the gite and that for me it was not possible today to go further still. Further back in place would be an accommodation, she says, and hopes with a glance at the clock that I would go. I ask them to call there, what it does then. No one is declining. Then she said I should try it again when Gite, the matron had let me in. I make it clear that I come back and sleep with her in front of the office, if the gite is closed for me. When I go I still see that she answers the phone. It calls safely to the matron.
When I come to the store and politely ask again, may I also would really. In gratitude I buy a present for my relationships properly. To know
A roof over your head is a fine thing. Some things you have to miss from time to time to recognize their value. When we come to the Gite, I'm thrilled. Although it is cold, but it has a fireplace and even firewood. The matron would turn on the fire begins to sweep the floor and to put some tables. Therefore, they did not open well. I help her and take over the fire. When she leaves, she smiles even briefly.
first time I have a kitchen. I need food establishment, but I have cooked spaghetti Bolognese. Spaghetti 250g, 200g minced beef, 1 onion , a few cloves garlic and a bottle of wine. The evening is successful.
The sleep afterwards but less. I sleep but a well and got the necessary bed, too heavy, and fatigue. But then I wake up and lie awake. The belly is too full, aching feet.
