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Following Geoff (Day 3 )

 

Tonight Geoff is in Etienimagene de Baigorry after walking 16km, with 1260m of ascent and 1248m of decent, this took him 7 hours.

He rang me tonight and sounded well if a little tired,I think his plan is to walk to Saint-Jean-pied-de-port next where he will take a few hours rest.

Yesterday he had trouble getting food so has used up most of his supplies and tonight he had to buy and cook pasta for his dinner. So I hope he stocks up with food again and looks after himself well.

Day 5 Auberge U Vallone to Hotel Castel di Vergio

Thursday 21/06/07

After a very restless night in the tent ( sleeping in a tent takes a bit of getting used too,especially when 2 are sharing a one man tent )

We woke up later than usual and got a breakfast too.

first thing I noticed today was that I felt a little more relaxed as to me the hardest day was over, I could stop worrying about the Cirque nowimage and just enjoy the rest of the walk.

We finally set off at 7.30 for an easier days walking , we hoped.

The first part of the walk was through the pine trees ,a gentle steady climb before turning steep and ending with a scramble up to the top of the Bocca di Frogiale.

It was very hot today and walking by the golo river gave us plenty of opportunity to go skinny dipping,in all the wonderful rock pools,with fantastic waterfalls too

As it was so hot the last stretch to the hotel seemed to take forever , so it felt good to finally get there.

Free camping here and warm showers too.

Anyone for tea and cake….

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Made just for my boys…a nice big chocolate cake

and there is not much left !!!

 

Very easy to make:-

8oz SR flour

8oz caster sugar

8 oz margarine

4 eggs.

Beat the sugar and margarine together until soft and fluffy,

beat in the eggs a little at a time,

then fold in the flour.

Bake for 20 mins at 190…..

Then sandwich together with butter icing, made with butter and icing sugar

Following Geoff (Day 1)

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This is where Geoff was this morning in Hendaye where he started his GR10 walk

Right by the beach as you can see

 

 

 

 

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This is where he is tonight, at Sare after walking 31km

So that means he has done the first 2 stages in one day.

Just what you would expect from him.

Ssssoooo Funny

This little animal really exists!
Unbelievable but true.

It’s called a Naked Mole-Rat, from Africa .

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Going through life is hard enough,
but to go through life looking like a dick with buck teeth must be horrible!

(Thanks Adelle for making me laugh so much )

Sally Twitter’s for 2007-09-04

  • Tesco staff magazine going to do a bit about me walking gr20 they just need me to e mail them a pic of me and geoff #
  • Having my hair cut now #
  • While geoff is away think i will up my meat in take starting with sausage tonight BUT they are quorn lol #
  • every time i try to open google earth my laptop crashes…… ;-( #
  • no gym for me tonight cannot face another drive into kings lynn so going for a jog instead #
  • Just finished the questionaire that Marek sent me about the GR20 http://corsica.forhikers.com/ #
  • Fab to get a phone call from Geoff… all is well ….he just needs a good nights sleep #

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My moment of Fame…

While at work today I got a phone call from the assistant editor of the Tesco staff magazine.

They wanted to ask me some questions about my GR20 walk.

As they are going to run a little article about it in the next issue of the magazine.

All I have to do now is e-mail them a photo….

While talking about having a moment of fame do not forget about my second moment of fame and the unusual request I had from Maple Kiwi.

Her book  ” sex in a tent“ is out in October, and is already a bestseller at no 57 of Amazons top 100 camping book list.

Don’t forget to get your order in soon……