WHEN WALKING

Home to Santiago – Day 29 Saintes to Pons: 25km It’s past eleven by the time I finally leave Saintes. I was planning to leave late so I could see the cathedral and the basilica which I’d missed last night, but eleven is pushing it. First of all, breakfast in the halte, which is provided.…

Home to Santiago – Day 28 Saint-Jean-d’Angely to Saintes: 36km This morning I wake up early, but I delay my start as the thunder rumbles outside. Very few lightning flashes, though, and not the downpour I’d expected, indeed, hoped for. So, at seven o’clock, after a brief goodbye to Suliac, I get walking in the…