Breakfast was fit for kings! Water in fancy almost-wine glasses, croissants, chocolate-filled pastries, small rolls made of French baguette-type bread (soft, moist and fluffy on the inside, hard on the outside), and some other kind of folded flaky pastry in a real bread basket! Everything was so fancy – or old-fashioned – the glasses, saucers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mas de Bordes’
Sat, April 19th: Train to Thues-Entre-Valle (Day 2)
Posted in Europe trip journal, France, tagged France, Thues, Le Train Jaune, Little Yellow Train, Mas de Bordes, gite, Olette, Pyrenees, mountains on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sun, April 20th: Thues-Entre-Valle (Day 3)
Posted in Europe trip journal, France, tagged France, gorge, Gorge de Caranca, hike, Mas de Bordes, mountains, Pyrenees, Thues-Entre-Valle on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We hiked the Gorge de Caranca today! It started out rainy – hard downpours during our morning (really early afternoon since we went to bed late & slept for 13 hours.) We’re glad we stuck it out and went on the long hike instead of the short one as it eventually cleared up. We could [...]
Mon, April 21st: Thues-Entre-Valles (Day 4)
Posted in Europe trip journal, France, tagged birthday, France, hike, hot springs, Mas de Bordes, mountains, Pyrenees, storm, Thues-Entre-Valles, village on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
C turned 26 today and didn’t even realize until he wrote the date in his journal yesterday that it was his last day as a 25-year-old! We had a great day even though we didn’t do anything special – other than spend the day enjoying the French Pyrenees! I told him we might be able [...]
