Awoke to the coldest morning yet – the altitude was just under 1000 metres and there was a heavy dew. The mountains looked beautiful illuminated by the dawn sunlight.

I was aiming to reach a campsite roughly halfway to Toulouse, and went back the way I came down to Lourdes, which involved around 7 miles of continuous descent, and then headed towards Tarbes.

As the mountains became smaller and more distant behind me and the terrain flattened out, the temperature quickly warmed up, and I ended up checking in to a municipal campsite at Rabastens-de-Bigorre. It was by far the emptiest campsite that I had visited so far and there was plenty of space.

Distance: 47 miles

Maximum temperature: 31 degrees C

Estaing

St-Savin

Looking back towards the mountains near Lanne