Vraiment, c'est vrai!
Well perhaps a bit of an exaggeration. However this was my experience in staying two nights at the Nevers camping ground. In both cases it was the right eye that was dodgy.
The first guy was very friendly and we chatted for a long time about this and that. He was surprised that I could recognise his accent as he was from the north. However a around 30 he may not have known that in the late 60s we were feed a daily dose of the Rev Ian Paisley and Bernadette Devlin. He was heading south with his partner on a moterbike and seemed very organised.
The second guy was a more problematic character. He had a bike of sorts but had taken the train to Nevers. We talked although the conversation was limited. I asked him where he was going and was it for holiday. His reponse was "me father died two years ago". Knowing something of Irish society I understand the importance of fathers and how this might set one wandering. He then asked me which way was south. I referenced my answer to the setting sun and hope it would help. The next morning we met again and he asked where he could get some soup and for a bike shop that could repair his brakes. He also asked where south was. I gave some suggestions for the soup and the bike repair and referenced my answer on direction to the rising sun.
A Dutch pilgrim (Never is on the pilgrim path to Spain)who had also talked to him what would become of him. During his last trip south he had had his drink spiked in Rome and lost everything. We had no answer.
I left Nevers in what I thought was a westerly direction and thinking whether I should have shared my soap with the boy (maybe mid 30s)from just south of Dublin. However, the Dutch pilgrim hadn't either so I stopped feeling so bad.
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Hi Bernie. Very much enjoying reading about your adventures in the Gaillic Wimmera & beyond. Thought you might be far enough away to be perversely amused that the VAGO water efficiency report was the second article on this evening's ABC news. Turns out that VAGO tabled a concurrent audit report on the EPA's policing of toxic waste dumping (or lack thereof), so that got the lion's share of media. A.
Hi Dad,
A melancholy story about the second bloke... but it wasn't too clear whether it was him or the Dutch pilgrim who lost everything after getting his drink spiked?
I'm halfway through finishing my exam period assessments. Have often thought about how you're going through the countryside. Don't worry your bratty children haven;t forgotten you!
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