A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Another drink/food stop, a pretty place to eat semolina pudding I must say.
It would take me 3 hours to final hoist my'self up to St Germain l'Herm and then, just after it there was a 25km steep descent. Lots of fun but I couldn't help think of the damn height I was losing since I knew that my next destination, La Chaise Dieu, was also at the same height, 1050m. Still, don't think about the road to come, just enjoy the moment; that's the way to do it, to quote Sootie, or was it Sweep?
Finally, La Chaise Dieu, although the second climb to 1050m wasn't so tough as the first one to St Germain l'Herm. From here I remember it as being a gentle descent to Allègre. I was wrong. It was much further, with a few climbs to boot, on a busier main road to Sambadel. Then from there it was a shorter distance, largely descent. I'd done from Chaise Dieu to Sambadel a couple of years previously, and camped at Sambadel Gare, my memory had shortened the distance.