Canal du Midi – Following your feet

Day 135: Aigues-Mortes to St.-Gilles

The pain in my ankle intensified, super irritating but mostly manageable when I walked slower than I normally would. It is good that it is my last day, as I wouldn’t want to continue walking. At least the weather was pleasant, sunny and 20 degrees. Today I continued along the Canal Sète à Rhône, leaving…

Day 134: Carnon to Aigues-Mortes

A short 19km stage, with no mistake missing turns today. However, it wasn’t plain sailing. I have a swollen left ankle/shin, and not sure whether it is an allergic reaction or shin splints. Whatever, it was painful each time my left foot hit the ground. I left through Carnon’s high rise flats, soon reaching the…

Day 133: Sète to Carnon

I really need to get my morning act together. For the second day running, I missed a turn that led to extra kilometers, and on a 30km+, sunny and warm day, they really count at the end of the day. Today I change canals. Continuing towards St. Gilles, I will be following the Sète to…

Day 132: Agde to Sète

A sign just outside the hotel said 24km to today’s destination, Sète, I ended up walking 35km. I slept until 8am, which was somewhat later than normal. At breakfast I had to give emergency help to my wife at home in Denmark, as her mobile payment app no longer worked. So it was 9.30 by…

Day 130: Capestang to Beziers

I left the B&B just as the door bell rang. The man at the door had hit a parked car, and the car belonged to the owner of the hotel. I beat a hasty retreat, unfortunately into the rain. Before leaving town I visited the church that totally dominates the skyline – so much so,…

Day 129: Roubia to Capestang

A 34km day with a very high probability of rain, and according to the forecast, the possibility for torrential rain after 4pm. The forecast was correct. There was heavy rain as I reached halfway, which lasted an hour and torrential rain at 4.45pm. Whilst I walked through the rain around lunch time, luckily I was…

Day 127: Carcassonne to Marseillette

It was clothes washing day, so after an early breakfast I found the closest laundromat and washed and tumble dried the four days worth of dirty clothes. The chore finished I walked up to the medieval city to have a final look around, with fewer tourists. Check out was at 11am, so I had a…

Day 125: Port Lauragais to Bram

I left this morning, expecting it to be a third day similar to the two first days, walking along a canal with tall trees along both banks. It’s been beautiful, fun to see the boats, locks and trees in an arc over the canal. And very easy going – flat and as long as you…

Day 123: Toulouse to Donneville

I was up at 4.30am, at the airport by 6am and in the air, on a half-full flight and slightly delayed flight to Toulouse. Copenhagen was bathed in beautiful sunshine, so fog in Toulouse, which caused the departure delay, wasn’t what I was expecting. I left from the new extension at the airport, which I…