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Toward Oloron, steps and stories.
Another 23 km to do, direction Oloron-Sainte-Marie.
On June 6 as well, the day was a long walk in nature, alone. Arriving at the albergue, however, the atmosphere changed completely: it was still the same four of us from the previous day, and a Korean guy was added too.
These are beautiful days precisely for this contrast: hours walking alone, then in the evening we always meet again to chat a bit, joke at dinner, and drink a beer. That Korean guy had arrived late at the albergue and told us the story that brought him there: instead of a normal 20/25 km stage, he had taken a wrong direction and ended up doing more than 40 km, effectively skipping one full stage. He had started together with a friend, but at some point they split: the other person wanted to call a taxi, while he kept saying, "no no no, I'm going on foot." So he kept walking all the way to Arudy. He told it in such a funny way that we could really feel his struggle, and we laughed a lot. All of this happened during a gloomy day of nonstop rain, which only eased in the late afternoon.
The French guy Thomas has an incredible story: I will tell it later.
Arudy-Oloron-Sainte-Marie stage: 23 km. Evening group: the usual four plus a new Korean arrival.
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