St Albans sur Limagnote to Aumont - Aubrac 16.8kms (96.6) 378m up

Not everything is what it seems.
Three times now we have thought someone has been trying to sell us something and it has turned out differently. Today a young girl was waiting for us beside the track. As we approached she walked up to us, looked anxious and started speaking rapidly in french. She kept repeating a particular word. Clare used her fluent French to ask her " what is a cow?"
The girl was mute. A fellow walker stepped in and urged us off the path, as the herd appeared

Today was a day of promises not kept.
5kms into the walk a farm sells coffee
4kms on a Gite has 🥪
The town of Les Estrets has two places for lunch.

Thankfully this kind person and this enterpising farmer's wife stepped in.

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