Mirepoix

September 26, Thursday: we had already decided we would not be able to walk from fanjeaux to mirepoix as it is 29km and there is no where in between to stay to break up the walk. Wendy arranged for the same taxi driver to come back and take us on to Mirepoix. She wanted to call him with the hope that she had left her hat in his car on Monday and she was really missing it. He arrived at 10 to the tabac bar with her hat in hand. The drive was about 25 minutes and he dropped us off at our next place, Labyrinth B&B, right in the heart of this lovely old town. We were very excited to see a large plaza with shops and bars, restaurants and coffee shops all the way around and a gorgeous church on one side. The buildings very old, colorful and well maintained. The restaurants under the balconys.

Wendy buying some dried apricots in the market. Huge selection of olives too!

We spent the day exploring, picking up more apples, cheese and crackers for tomorrow’s hike at the Carrefour shop. Just before dinner we went in search of the GR markings to find our route out of town tomorrow. We had dinner outside in the plaza. We both chose a chèvre salad. This one a little different as it has chèvre frais ( cold goat cheese – the speciality here) on hot toast instead of chèvre chaud (done on the broiler). Salad was delicious with beet root, mushrooms and an onion confit (onion jam). So good with more of the local red wine. We had a very comfortable night in our B & B run by an English woman, an artist, who has lived with their family in France for 16 years.