And finally for today, not sure whether this picture will come out, but the view of Le Puy coming down the hill from the west is stunning. Three volcanic plugs with medieval churches or absurd statues on top of each. Raven of course pushing her way in to the picture foreground as ever.

Le Puy is the main French base for the start of the Camino de Santiago pilgrim route down into Spain. It would be lovely to do this again properly, either by bike or even on foot, after Sue and I took our tandem sunshine from Pamplona to Santiago in the summer of 2006.

Indeed, as I write, the Camino café around me is full of Pilgrims from Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Austria, making their much slower foot-borne way towards spiritual healing

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