PS to One month's rest and to this first part of my adventure

I forgot to mention one interesting encounter (too much occupied with my feet!): When normally I had been the only small tent (or tent at all) amongst the many mobile homes in the various camping lots, in Brem-sur Mer, late in the evening another small tent appeared. In the morning I came across its occupant, a young man somewhere in his thirties. I started talking to him in French and he answered: No francais, allemand!

Ich auch, I answered to his surprise. He too was on his way to St. Jacques, with a scooter, the adult version of a child's scooter. He was/is Bavarian, has been living in Berlin for 15 years or so, and had started his adventure in Berlin - a long way to come on a scooter (photo will be on the blog when we get round to it). We discussed equipment - it is always interesting to hear other people's experience, what they find indispensable as compared with your own needs; for instance he had equipped himself with titanium pikes for his tent; they are much sturdier and lighter than aluminium ones. Mine are aluminium and sometimes I found the ground so hard (because we have had very little rain in the last few months) that my pikes bent and I could not get them into the ground properly. So now I am trying to find titanium pikes, but so far can get only titanium tent nails.

If you can read German and are interested, you can find him on kickhard.de
Voila!