Last night we had a communal dinner at our gîte (French for pilgrim hostel) with a dozen other pilgrims. Fortunately, we were seated next to English speakers: a young woman from Belgium, a grandmother from Quebec, and a French mother who was walking for a week with her husband, son, and daughter. They go home in a week—she hopes to go all the way.
The language barrier is probably our biggest challenge. Our study beforehand, and what little I remember from high school French, is not enough to get by. Fortunately, patient French people and Google Translate fill in the gaps!

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Both yesterday and today we had fabulous weather. Warm but not too hot. Unfortunately, it looks like the sun screen goes away tomorrow and the rain gear comes out.