day 23 – draft
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Aire-sur-'lAdour to Arzacq-Arraziguet  (Arsac-Arrasigui)
34 km today - 620 km to date

Coffee in large bowls and other stuff for breakfast and off.

It is brilliant weather, but not too hot.   I stay with the road again and shortly go around a marvellous bush with much under growth, almost New Zealand like except there is no variety of trees.  After this through farmland (agriculture and not sheep and cattle) on farm tracks and service roads to Miramount-Sensacq.  This village as with the towns of Gondrin several days ago is rugby country as I see posters for the Bearn regional final in the local stade in two days time. After saying the morning office in the neat and tidy church back on the road.

This is literally up hill and down dale with yet more dense bush: wonderful to behold.  I  pause at the top of one rise and find a quiet place to have a lie down.

With about 10 km to go I take the official way and it has a good surface.  But about 3 km out the heat gets to me again and I get a ride to the towns edge.  There is a municipal gite.  It is new, clean and tidy and I am to be in the Australie set.  Dinner is good.

And so to bed.