A Mountain Walk

Today we headed to the mountains by way of the train. When we got to Pau, we visited the tourist office, who told us it was not possible to do any hiking in the mountains without having a car. While they were somewhat correct in that we couldn't get to the officially sanctioned, back-country trails without one, the train brought us to the pretty little town of Bedous, where their tourist office happily showed us many options, including the rather longish trail we did take. The map showed a trail that was 11.9 km long, but after we followed their descriptive directions, which got worse as the trail went on, we ended up walking about 14 km, which might have been shorter than if we followed the sparse directions. Anyway, it was a gorgeous day, the best of our whole time in Pau.Read more