The views change dramatically as we drive through the pass. We left the small hotel in Alquézar after breakfast, where buildings of brick and reddish sandstone are plastered with an earthy clay and have red tiled roofs, nestled in a land of grey and red limestones, which has been aged ...
In East and Southern Africa it is the rainy season during April and May. For most of my life this period has conjured up images of abundance, greenery, mud, adventure, with a bit of steamy warmth. As this is not the best time to be on safari, I have traditionally ...
The GR 10 Trans Pyrenean Way trail involved interminable steep descents and climbs through dense chestnut and holm oak forests. We had seen nobody since we left the highway and border town of Perthus. The summer heat was so intense that I think even the crickets were quiet. Occasionally there ...
This is an update on my previous post, the Way. The day after my son Laurence and I had biked to the French border, my nephew Christopher joined our party and we set off from our Pyrenean village to Santiago de Compostela: the ancient cathedral town and legendary resting place ...
Most of the land is so dry that it is only fit for hardy cereals or livestock, but the first part is bordered by the Ebro river ...
