Author Archives: Tim & Sarah

A few of the hikes we had done so far had been recommended by the Lonely Planet guidebook and we have often found that if a hike is recommended in the book it is certainly worth doing. The Cirque d’Estaube was one of these hikes and so we once again packed up the van andContinue reading “Luz Hike – Cirque d’Estaubé”

The weather was going to be glorious the next day so we decided to tick off another of the must do hikes in the area. I was a little tired and sore from the previous two day’s epic hikes but soldiered on and pretty much from the start the views made it all worth it.Continue reading “Luz Hike – Cirque du Troumouse”

Luz was another cute mountain town about the same size as Cauterets. Our campsite was walking distance to the town and on the walk in we had lovely views of an old ciditel perched on one of the surrounding hillsides. The main street was filled with the usual mix of restaurants, gift shops and storesContinue reading “Luz”

We awoke to glorious blue skies so packed up quickly and were soon on the road to our next destination of Luz I think only about 10kms away as the crow flies but over the other side of a few mountains so it took us about half an hour. We had to wait for receptionContinue reading “Luz hike – Pic de midi”

The next day we were lucky once more as when we woke in the morning there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. We had a short drive to our chosen hike which was up to the Lac de Gaube and then further on up the valley towards the pic Vignemale which is the highest peakContinue reading “Cauterets Hike Pont d’Espagne to base Pic Vignemale”

Unlike Luchon Cauterets was definitely all open and had a bit of a holiday buzz about the place. We thought we would take advantage of the access to the top of the mountain being open and took the gondala up on our second day. While we were up there we thought we would have aContinue reading “Cauterets Hike Soum de Mauloc to Ilheou lake”

The next morning the sun came out and the sky was perfectly blue so off we went on our first hike. While there were plenty of hikes leaving from the town some others were a short drive away leaving from a spot called the Pont d’Espagne. It doesn’t take long for us to pack upContinue reading “Cauterets Hike Pont d’Espagne to Refuge Wallon”

Our next stop was Bagnères-de-Luchon situated in the Pyrenees and selected due to its abundant hiking and mountain biking tracks. We decided to jump back onto the motorway to get there just because we thought our little van would appreciate it more rather than going up and down steep mountains. Plus the time difference inContinue reading “Bagnères-de-Luchon”

Our meandering around France was really quite fantastic but we did have a goal of enjoying the Pyrenees and after getting a little taste of the mountains we decided to jump on the péage motorway and make a bee line for the southern border and continue our meandering down there. This was going against ourContinue reading “Cahors”