19th August Le Puy en Velay

I arrived in Lyon to blue skies and not too hot. My backpack frame had a carbon fibre strut snapped in transit. Wedging my flip-flops is a temporary solution to stiffen the pack.
I arrived at Le Puy and booked in at a Gite de Etape, a bed in a dormitory. I was too tired to walk to the campsite.
I had a look around Le Puy and bought food to cook in the kitchen at the gite.
Whilst cooking I got talking with a Spanish woman, who was walking the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail and a French guy who had been walking the GR3, from Nantes, following the river Loire to it,s source. Le Puy's a hiking crossroads/paths.