Have abandoned hills temporarily. Instead of heading south and flirting with the Pyrenees, we've headed west along the towpaths of one of the big canals towards Toulouse and the Dordogne. The canal we're tracking runs through sunflower and wheat country and was built by an enterprising young engineer in the 17th C to link the Atlantic and Mediterranean.It's a bit cross country, but paths are lined with plane trees and places to picnic and watch boats float up and down through the locks (I love locks - they're so simple and clever). Very restive. Very flat. Very Wind in the Willows - there are even water rats and we think we saw a woodpecker.
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