The Winter Pilgrim

A previous post showed an intrepid pilgrim battling the elements up on the Aubrac. It was probably taken 15 months or so ago, although it does not really matter. It might not even have been a pilgrim at all. Maybe I misled you and it was a model taken out there in an over-snow vehicle and professionally photographed for the local tourism board. Afterwards she could have been rushed to the nearby "Café de Thé" in the small village of Aubrac to thaw out where there is always a raging wood fire rapidly consuming the last vestiges of the surrounding forest.

Above the café is a hotel unlike the other often frugal accommodation used by pilgrims, or walkers masquerading as pilgrims. It is a place with a distinctive decor to take your new lover and/or if you live a life with no concept of price. The rooms are perched at 1,300 metres on the edge of the Massif Central and can have adjacent twin baths with an endless view over the valley of the Lot River. Drinks and delicacies delivered with French discretion.