Every trip seems to define itself in its own special way. " Remember when we went to Vietnam and everyone we met knew someone we did? Or remember when we went to Italy and we lucked out on every festival?" I fear this will be the trip where we say "Remember how we were always lost in France?" First of all lost in Beauvais and then on a simple forest walk we went round and round and round Guess what though.... We had a great time!
One of the main reasons that we came to this area was to walk in the Pyrenees, But the weather has not been kind to us... not the temperatures so much as the visibility. (8 - 19 degrees is great for walking) but rain and grey skies most days did not make for great mountain walking as the visibility and views were poor. So we decided to pick up our French guide book (en francais of course) and set off for a walk in the forest instead of the mountains. 15 km ... a good start-up walk... but we never made it. We just could not make sense of the trails. We tried to follow the blue markers, which only appeared once and were replaced by white, green and red ones - we found ourselves constantly walking in circles and arriving back where we started .... with great effort we managed about 6km and then gave up...........beautiful though!
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