Maubourguet south to Lourdes

From Maubourguet we continued south along the GR 101 towards Lourdes. The GR intersects the GR 653 approx 3 km west of Maubourguet. The entire section south is approx 65 km and it takes 2 to 3 days to reach Lourdes. It is approx 30 km to our first destination, an abbey overlooking a remote country village. Walkers have two options; one to take the actual GR track or to take a series of quiet departmental roads that latter would intersect the main trail. Given that is was raining when we left Julie and I decided take the road with plans to shorten the distance we had to cover that day while Michael decided to follow the actual GR trail. We agreed to meet later at the abbey