Today we walk to Arras. Forcast is thunder and lightning all day. There is raining the tent as we wake but it stops, there is thick mist, difficult to tell if it’s raining or not.
Breakfast in Olhain and the day gradually brightens over the fields as we pick up the Roman road called for Brunhaut the queen who was dragged across the fields.
On the way we find another wayside shrine dedicated to our old friend St Roch or Roche another patron of pilgrims, his left leg is troubling him at this one.
This sees us not quite to the ruined but impressive abbey at Mont At Eloi where we enjoy a virtual reality beer. After visiting two very twinned dolmen, menhirs, standing stones (language of choice) we arrive in Marouil where we get a late real beer needed after seeing a funeral at a fine church in Ecoivres and pick up the river Scarpe at a water extraction point for the pompiers.
We finish our lunch, first tasted at an emergency stop in fields (all feeling a bit flaked by 11am) at the Source of St Bertille a local battleaxe (oops abbess) of the 6th century, which was named for her and of course has miraculous powers in restoring sight.
Continuing down the Scarpe into Arras we get a thunderstorm near the cathedral and take shelter in a bar. It turns out only 200m from our destination the Hotel the Three Luppars. Where we check in and crash out, it was 16miles