Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The South of France


It's been 2.5 weeks of driving since we left Paris.  The scenery has been varied.  Everything from wall to wall vineyards to wall to wall trees.  And now, significant hills.

We left Carcassonne this morning after visiting the old city yesterday.  It was fine, but being in the countryside, going through small villages, hiking through fields and woods...far better.
Today's travel was the usual follow your nose day we usually have on these trips.  The chief navigator has a rough destination in mind and peruses the road atlas for efficient or interesting ways of getting there.  This usually works well, with occasional mis-steps, or mis-routes, which have, so far, brought us to views and walks that you would have never found on purpose.

Today, for example.  By missing one turn, we ended up in a small valley, went over a pass, had a great, short hike and then lunch out of the back of the car under clear skies and overlooking great scenery.

We are nearing Spain.  We've stopped for the night in the municipal campground of Cierp-Gaud.  Look that one up with Google maps....

Straight south is Spain, probably an hour away.  We're planning a short hike in the morning from a village near here.  Then we are thinking of a day or so in the Pyrenees national park and then cross the mountains into Spain.  After that, we'll see.

The adventure continues.

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