After one day of silence, I need to take a step back: the evening when we slept in L’Argentière, the owner of the gîte (quite a kind of a woman!), told us that yesterday it was the Feast of the Ascension and that all the gîtes would probably be full until monday… This, obviously, didn’t cheer us up, so, quickly enough, we tried to work out where we could sleep in the following nights. Thanks to the employee of the Tourism Office of L’Argentière,  we have a bit forced the priest of Guillestre to host us in a parrish room. So, yesterday, we walked for 22 wonderful km  along the Valley of the Durance, to Mont Dauphin, where Roberto was kindly bitten by a dog in a heel, while he was taking a picture of a sundial. Then, we had lunch, trying not to fly away because of the strong wind and, in the afternoon, we reached Guillestre, to meet Stefano and the good priest.

The dinner was a bit difficult: after trying to find a place in 4 restaurants (really, all the restaurants in Guillestre), we had to go to a snack-bar, the only one willing to welcome us. At 20:30 the priest arrived and gave us our mansion: a catechism room with large wooden tables and a small toilet with a kitchen corner. Tonight, we couldn’t have a real shower, so we went to “bed” (or to table) straight after dropping our backpack on the floor, probably like the ancient pilgrims were used to do pretty every night.

This morning I was more tired than yesterday, with my left hip completely rigid, but a warm tea restarted my engine. Stefano spent a little time taking some pictures, while I went on with Roberto, with 2 goals clear in my mind: 1. Solving the accomodation problem for tonight 2. Buying some food.

It’s useless to say that we failed both our goals: none of the gîtes answered the phone and the only grocery store we met, after 20 km, was closed. Anyway, we were prized by the pretrifying source, geological wonders and breathtaking landscapes.

Since now I’m writing from Embrun, from a king-size bed in a 5-places room that we will pay as a triple… we have nothing to complain about!