Figeac to Cajarc

What a time getting these photos to download.  It took me more than three hours.

This is the lovely La Table de Marinette where I dined last night.  If you look closely there is a cute little dog sitting with the man by the window.  The little dog was very well behaved.

Look at this salad--clearly the most beautiful salad I have ever seen. And it tasted as good as it looks. The top was a warm cheese on a crostini. This was placed over very fresh greens, mushrooms, and avocados with the perfect vinaigrette.  Surrounding it were endive sections, candy cane radishes, and homegrown tomatoes.

My entree lived up to the salad.  I had smoked haddock with a delicious sauce accompanied by red cabbage, a vegetable medley, and the best sweet potatoes ever.  I know they will take away my Southern Belle card for this but I don't like sweetened sweet potatoes.  I hate all that marshmallow topping and brown sugar. These sweet potatoes were so flavorful but had no extra sugar at all.  I got a cheese plate instead of dessert mainly because I needed the cheese for today.  The food here just gets better and better.

The view from my hotel room this morning.  I got up earlier because I had a very long day ahead. It was rated at 19.5 miles but I took a short cut and the total for the day 18.7.  

They really are everywhere.  At least no one gave me a Watchtower.  I used to carry them when I was a Federal Air Marshal.  The minute a brought one out, nobody would talk to me.  

The trail.  I had a pretty hard climb right off the bat and then it wasn't too bad until he end which ws pretty steep.  Well, there really isn't anything too easy about an 18.7 mountain trail day..

I know it wasn't for me but isn't that cute...right on the trail.  

The River.

He didn't cross my path but he was pretty friendly.  He rolled over on his back and I couldn't resist tickling his stomach.  He hissed at me but came right back for some more attention...just don't touch his stomach...like our Crabby Abbey.

This is a playhouse...pretty fancy.

So many beautiful flowers.  The trail smelled good all day.

More views.  I didn't get many early photos because my head was in the clouds, along with the rest of me.  I was high up enough to be in the clouds.

More trail.

Look how black his face is.  It looks like someone put a mask on him.  He was pretty social and came right over to the fence.

This section was about two miles of burned out.  The interesting thing is the rocks made it look like snow.  Something about the hot fire is that it bleached all the stones white.

Aren't these pretty.  I love flowers.  I can't wait to get home and plant a few things....kill a few things.

This is my very modern hotel.  It is beautiful and I had a lovely meal tonight.  My first course was a salad with rare salmon.  I am not crazy about raw fish but this was good.  My next course was the most interesting pork chop.  It local la-te-dah pork and had sort of a tempura batter covered in a fabulous sauce of prunes and dried fruits.  And yet it wasn't cloyingly sweet.  It was accompanied by whipped celery that looked just like mashed potatoes, a few carrots, and wild rice. The celery was my favorite part of the entree but I never met a vegetable I didn't like.  I was salting away and the chef came out and told me that I might want to taste it before I salted it.  Oops!  The pièce de résistance was the dessert.  It was some type of apple pie looking thing with layers upon layers of phyllo dough seasoned with a liquor.  It was heavenly.  I am not a cooked apple fan and I would order this over and over.

So another day ends. Kisses to you all.