day 24 – draft
Friday, 29 April 2016
Arzacq-Arraziguet  (Arsac-Arrasigui)  to  Arthez-de-Bearn
28 km today - 648 km to date

Coffee in cups today.  The gite has a school party staying as well.

I take the road all the way as I hear the pathway is still rocky and uneven.

I pause for a pleasant lunch at the newly built mairie (town offices) and near where a travelling circus looks as though it is about to set up.  The rest of the day is uneventful.

Pull up the hill to Arthez to find the town strung along a ridge. Buy some paracetamol and some food to cook for dinner in the communal gite.  Here  I meet Gerhart (probably in his mid thirties) from near  Nuremberg in upper Germany.  He tells me he was four years a private in the German army where he met Edgar, his walking companion and a former general.  Marlene is here (first met at Beduer over two weeks ago) as she was last night at Arzacq.  Eating together is good.

During my walk about the town come to the town plaza with views west to the Pyrenees.  I take photos but the distance and the cloud behind don't make good images.  There's always tomorrow.

And so to bed.