Walking Day 8. Maubourquet to Anoye 23k 14m

The day started out pretty good, left Hotel at 7:45 with dry boots and no rain till around 11:30, but the trail is almost impassable in areas.  Took a few country roads to avoid some of the muddiest trails.

Ran into a few new pilgrim friends seeking shelter from the rain to eat lunch and sit down for a little rest.

The place we stayed was in the (mairie) town hall, dedicated to provide rooms for pilgrims in this little remote town. We finally caught up to the other pilgrims that we had heard were traveling just before us.. So there we're 11 of us last night .  6 bunks to a room. One bathroom and one shower.  No markets in town or restaurants but the volunteer at the pilgrim center open a food store for all of us to get a few things to cook for supper.   We pooled everything together and the french women started cooking.  Veg soup, macaroni with tuna and bread served all of us at a large table.  One women spoke English and one guy who is from Quebec speaks English and they were great about including us in the conversations.  After dinner we were told the "singers" were coming so we all dashed outside by the church and were treated to an awesome concert by some local young men who are Pyrenesse chanters who preformed for us before they went in to the church..they came back later and we could still here them outside til almost 10:30.