We flew back to Toulouse with Easijet this year and indeed Liz and Clare reckoned that at least one of the crew had been on last year's flight home. Most were eastern European. You kept expecting 'Scooch' to burst down the aisle following their abortive efforts on Eurovision last night.
Using our initiative we had decided to "catch the train" from Toulouse to Cahors now that we knew our way around. It wasn't the best way. Our bags were a bit heavy and we seldom found trolleys. The bus from airport to railway station was OK but the train was not straightforward. We had to take a little shuttle train to Montauban and change. But then it transpired that our connection from there to Cahors was to be replaced by a bus and that took a long time to make its way to all the intermediate train stations. Anyway, you live and learn and the bus driver did agree to drop us off close to the Hotel Chartreuse which was very helpful. We arrived at 2.45pm.Little had changed from last year.
Geoff and Sue Todd arrived to join us. They are going to walk the first week with us this year and hopefully will subsequently want to join us for more. They have left their new Campervan at Lascabanes to use it for the first night of the trip as accommodation there is restricted. Geoff reports that Lascabanes is a pretty village but that our gite is "modest". This is a "non-standard" stop on the Worldwalks itinerary to give us a starting day of no more than 22k.
