No matter what your beliefs might be, I think it would be hard not to be moved by the torchlight procession for the evening service at Lourdes. As we entered the gate of St Michel choral singing flooded the square from the 100’s of speakers dotted around the vast open area in front of the…
We left Colioure Sunday morning and headed back north towards Toulouse hoping to stay near the Canal du Midi to take a cycle along the towpath. After a couple of failed attempts at finding a campsite (first one closed, second no facilities) we eventually found one, down what was almost a goat track, at St…
After leaving Collioure the SatNav took us on some fairly interesting “shortcuts” – this is where it attempts to cut a few 100 metres of a major road by using a diagonal minor road. In towns we’ve learnt to recognise those, and ignore them, but as we headed into the Pyrenees all roads became minor and…