Following the Aude
22/10/18 – 24/10/18 Following our morning of sightseeing in Carcassonne we decided to crack on back into the Pyrenees. Our target was Les Angles, a large ski resort in the… Read more »
Category: Countries
Carcassonne, Following the Floods
21/10/18 – 22/10/18 We nursed a mild hangover on Sunday morning, relaxing in the Lagbruguiere aire until Paul felt fit to drive. We needed to make our way back to… Read more »
Chiefs! Chiefs! Chiefs!
17/10/18 -20/10/18 It was late summer when Paul’s friend Mark (aka Ted, aka Welshy) mentioned that the draw for the Rugby Union European Cup had taken place. Chiefs would be… Read more »
Snowy Border Crossings at the Hospice de France
14/10/18 – 16/10/18 We had a fixed date in the diary for the coming weekend, a rugby match in the town of Castres. Although we’d already been to Bagneres de… Read more »
A Bicycle No More
13/10/18 We drove back to Gavarnie to tick one more item off on our list. We wanted to cycle up the Vallée d’Ossoue as far as the waterfall and see… Read more »
A Trip to Another Cirque
12/10/18 The Cirque de Gavarnie may be the most famous of the Pyrenean cirques, but it is not the only one. When the day dawned with yet more cloud hanging… Read more »
Thwarted at 3000m
11/10/18 While here in Gavarnie I wanted to tackle one of the easier 3000m peaks of the Pyrenees. The Pic du Taillon stands as the highest mountain of the Cirque… Read more »
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 »
A Rest is Good for a Change
06/10/18 – 08/10/18 When looking at the weather forecast we tend to err on the side of optimism. We check a couple of different sites and apps; the BBC, the… Read more »
A Couple of Cols and a Pic
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 »
Playing in the Clouds at Superbagnères
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 »
Aulus-les-Bains and the Cascade d’Ars
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 »
Not Quite in Andorra
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 »
Lammergeiers from the Pic de Tarbesou
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 »
A Couple of Days in the Orlu Valley
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 »
Stretching our Legs
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 »
Cooling Down and Moving Up
17/09/18 – 18/09/18 After looking at the weather forecast, where numbers in the thirties were far too prevalent, we decided that we had to get to a higher altitude as… Read more »
A Cycle Round the Lac de Saint-Pardoux
15/09/18 – 16/09/18 We spent the next day driving and with a couple of hundred more miles under our belts and the temperatures slowly rising into the low thirties we… Read more »
Walls and Water Lilies
14/09/18 We had arrived in France at dusk, and made our way to the aire in Montreuil. We don’t normally drive in the dark and the combination of mostly unlit… Read more »
On the Way to France: Plans and Shopping Lists.
13/08/18 While we’ve been in the UK we’ve debated our travelling preferences – what do we really enjoy and what makes us stressed? What is the right balance of rest… Read more »