There are problems! We are where there are hardly any shops and they open whenever. It is a long way from the nearest big town. Langres is over 30km away.
We start with an aim which may involve wild camp or a campsite in Hulme where there are no shops. Plots are a foot. If we could get to Langres there is all that could be desired. And a rest day could be declared.
There are many little villages en route, one of the further is Mardor, it is renamed Mordor and the wandering of Frodo with Smegol in the desolation comes to mind. The countryside is far from desolate though
It is proper farmland, not at all like the industrial agro landscape of before. There are woods cows streams butterflys and orchids …….and Lavoirs!
Every village has one. Most have a sign saying eau non potable. they are wefed by local springs, on one with no water some wag has written “Eau potable”. We go from village to village until finally the plan is revealed in St Ciergues. just outside the old and very nice little church we have late lunch and the remaining 8km to Langres are surmounted. It is not miraculous we still have to walk it.
Eventually we get there. And discover, as some had already known, that it is 150m up a hill!
Nice campsite though! And with a day to dry not using all those Lavoirs is not a problem.