Today was another 10 miles, bringing our total to 325 miles. We passed a sign today that helped put it on perspective. 
While difficult to read, if you zoom in on the right side, you’ll see that it says, “999 km to Santiago”. For non- metric speaking people, that’s about 620 miles. We’ve traveled 325 miles, meaning that we’ve now gone only about a third of the distance to Santiago. We will not go the whole distance this year!
Today was more rolling hills and farmland. While there are multiple different crops being grown, the predominant seems to be the tournesol, or sunflower. 
So, le weekend. Yes, the French word for weekend is le weekend. It is a protected time for many French villages. We arrived in Lectoure at 2:00pm, when many of the businesses were closing for le weekend. We found one kind cafe that remained open for us to dine, but all others were fermee (closed). There is a store that will reopen at 3:30 for a couple of hours, so we will catch that, then. If you miss it, they will not be open tomorrow. As tomorrow is a rather long stage, we will want to be stocked up with supplies while we can.
Hope you all are enjoying Le Weekend!
Much different that CF where everything seems to be open all the time! Glad you are finding those places to stock up. Is the weather cooling off a bit, or do you go from rain to hot? Thanks for continuing to share your daily musings and walkings with all of us. I love the connection, the pictures and most of all, both of you!
Thank you, Willow, for keeping in touch with us. We really do enjoy hearing from you, from home. The weather seems to have a pattern, slowly heating for several days (to the low 90’s), them rain for a day or two that cools things off … then heating. We’re on a heating cycle now and we’ll be in the low 90’s for a few days. The deal with Le weekend is that you just have to know it’s coming and therefore be prepared. There are no 24 hr stores here. But that’s alright, we’re not visiting the United States, we’re visiting France … and enjoying it!