A Birthday in Gavarnie
09/10/18 – 10/10/18 We left the campsite with a vague promise of better weather from at least one weather app. Our destination was Gavarnie, a tourist honey-pot and probably the… Read more »
09/10/18 – 10/10/18 We left the campsite with a vague promise of better weather from at least one weather app. Our destination was Gavarnie, a tourist honey-pot and probably the… Read more »
03/10/18 – 05/10/18 The weather for the coming weekend was predicted to be wet and cold, and we wanted to tick off a couple of things before it changed for… Read more »
30/09/18 – 02/10/18 As the weather is still beautifully sunny and warm I’m a little surprised to find that we’re now into October; a month that usually signals a definite… Read more »
27/09/18 – 29/09/18 After two weeks of sweaty walking and cycling we needed to do some washing. A bit of google maps investigation revealed that our closest launderette was at… Read more »
24/09/18 – 26/09/18 We woke up on the top of the Col de Pailheres in thick fog, we could barely see anything; a bit of a concern as we wanted… Read more »
22/09/18 – 23/09/18 True to our expectations we ached when we woke up. Our calf muscles were tight, thighs were sore and getting out of our raised bed was a… Read more »
20/09/18 – 21/09/18 We headed back downhill from the 3-Ax ski area to Ax-les-Thermes and parked in the same daytime parking spot as we did a couple of days ago…. Read more »
19/08/18 We feel refreshed after a good night’s sleep and wake to find that the skies are blue and any signs of the previous night’s thunder and rain have been… Read more »
10/09/18 -12/09/18 It has been such a busy summer. Three months we have been back and yet I don’t know where the time has gone. It’s been wonderful to catch… Read more »
08/08/18 – 14/08/18 Enid Blyton, author of the Famous Five books (amongst many others), was a great lover of the Dorset countryside, particularly the Isle of Purbeck and it’s main… Read more »
23/07/18 – 27/07/18 I have always been a fan of public transport. I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my late twenties, and that was more out of… Read more »
11/06/18 – 12/06/18 At the bottom of the Valsavarenche, just above the village of Introd which proudly proclaims it is a ‘Friend of Popes’, another valley splits off. This is… Read more »
07/06/18 – 10/06/18 These blog posts may get a bit samey…visit a valley in the Aosta region, cycle a bit, walk a bit, see some marmots etc etc. if they… Read more »
03/06/18 – 06/06/18 South of the Aosta Valley is an offshoot of the Alps, Italy’s first national park. It is named after its highest peak – Gran Paradiso – the… Read more »
While we were in Cervinia we sat and watched as the spring sun thawed the snow and created avalanches. The sound as the snow starts to move is awesome in… Read more »
31/05/18 – 02/06/18 Breuil-Cervinia sits at the head of the Valtournenche. It’s a resort town, mostly purpose built to support the skiing industry, and we were quite shocked to see… Read more »
28/05/18 – 30/05/18 We had finally arrived in the Valle d’Aosta, the most westerly of Italy’s alpine regions which has borders with Switzerland and France. In fact French is an… Read more »
24/05/18 Monte Forato had caught my eye while we were driving south through Italy and we’d immediately put it on our to-do list. There was too much snow on the… Read more »
19/05/18 – 20/05/18 In search of a sosta we left the beautiful Piano Grande (I keep wanting to call it the Grand Piano, but that’s something else entirely), driving the… Read more »
17/05/18 – 18/05/18 We were continuing our homeward journey northwards and the next stop would be the Sibillini national park. This area was hard hit by multiple earthquakes in 2016… Read more »