paris
Denise and Melly
cruising the Seine
The Travellers- Josh is holding the camera...Allez, Allez!
View from the Eiffel Tower
View from firs level
Map of European Union at base of the Eiffel., Yes those are people, not ants. We were on the second level up.
The elevators used to be controlled by a guy hanging his ass out all day long.
Artsy, eh?
Life on the river
Around town
Sacre Couer
The famous Moulin Rouge. ( Red Windmill )
On the TGV to Dax. Travelling at about 175 kph. Very fast!
Denise on the Atlantic at her dad's
Back on the train, we left Art and Melly at Bordeaux, and transferred to Perpignan, and our hikes.
On zee train...
Small village on the way up to Montferrer
Soccer is big around here, or is it just their pilot's balls?
Walking about the village.
This is where we stayed, up the road a bit from Montferrer
The main house
L-R Simon, Zookie, Denise. Denise had a major crush on Zookie.
Jaimie and Family. The organizers of the hikes.
That's a donkey, not an ass
In front of the fireplace
Dining- haut cuisine
The wine was fine
Haut cuisine- too good to waste.
Ceret- out to dinner.
Up the valley on a full moon night.
A stroll through Montferrer. Once famous for nearby iron ore the was rust resistant, the town lost most of its menm in WW I, and after the mine closed a while back. Now there are literally 11 people living here.
Getting ready for our first outing. D checks the length of her poles.
The way the Irish tie a shoe.
Our fearles ( really sometimes careless) leader- Gustav. His trainee Bruno makes sure we know where we are.
The lonesome tree hill.
Some thinning of the forest occurs here.
L-R Kathleen, Henrietta, Denise
Montferrer
Gustav was way into fungus.
Looking out at the Pyrenees.
Local wildlife
More wildlife
Old building at a lunch stop
Up in the clouds
Take a load off!
Kathleen and Denise mix it up.
We are having lunch up there?! Never got that far.
Denise finds the trail.
Along the ridge- clouds pouring up the valley.
The traverse.
View down the valley.
Denise scrambles.
The crowd along the trail.
Somewhere, some village has lost it's idiot.....
The traverse was cool. Sometimes quite narrow and exposed.
On the reast day, D and i went to Prats de Molio, an old walled city, with a fort overlooking it. The fort was built in the 1800's. The town, more like 1200.
One of the gates to the town.
Up to the church
Rambling round the church-and views
The gate leading out to the way to the fort.
Views of the fort above Prats de Molio
It is a long way down.
There is a protected passage from the town to the fort.
Looking up the passage.
Fountain of the seven in Ceret
Yes, this is wine country.
Banyuls sur Mer. A town that I want to get back to some day.
The GR 10 traverses the Pyrenees. It starts here, and ends at the Atlantic.
The gang.
We hiked up through vineyards to the ridge and then north to Colliure
Shot through my binoculars
Part of the vineyards ahd burned two weeks earlier
A little break along the way.
Coulliere's sea side castle
Petanque, played anywhere, and everywhere.
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Blue shoes, blue ball.
Tile downspout drain.
Say Ahhh...
Another day, another hike.
Orientation Tablet , there is a great view from here. Sorry, you only get to see the tablet.
A mill stone , way up on top of a ridge near three old towers. Um, maybe a donkey powered mill?
crumbling arch from the 1200's
The tower of the three goats.
Denise practices her downward dog. Yoga in the 13th century.
Mother - daughter in a tiny town at the end of one of our hikes.
Inside the church, there was this clockworks.
The door of the church.
The man of the mountains.
Setting up the next few shots...
After the Pyrenees, we went to Cadaques, Spain for a few days.
On the walk over to Salividor Dali's house.
Looking down into the cove . Dali's house is in the foreground.
A Tree grows out of a boat in the courtyard in front of Dali's place. Everything there was a bit surreal.
Close up of the stem of the boat.
Some shots from inside Dali's house.
Our veranda
View from the veranda
Nice Header.
