Tannery museum When the two smoking "pilgrims" and their dog finally left the hostel I started to relax and my rest day eventu...

In Aiguafreda I changed from the GR 2 onto the GR 5. Of course this involved a long descent into town and then an even longer one up into ...

 From the border it was a short 10 km road walk to Aguallana and the GR 2. The little town welcomed me to Spain with long awaited free wif...

Carcassonne When I had stayed in the youth hostel in Carcassonne in summer last year I had been all alone in the dormitory. But now in l...

The predicted torrential thunderstorm took a very long time to arrive... The night that I had spent in an obscenely expensive (for my usua...

My timing for Le Puy had been perfect. I waited out the cold days in my lovely room in the gite St Francois with central heating, got all my...