Trip plan
Are you serious? Those are real mountains and you are thinking of riding your bicycles?
Yes, people have questioned our sanity, but Mallorca pumped us up with extra bravado and we really did love the feeling of making it to the top, so we are going give the "haute route" a try. But, not to worry, our planned itinerary also includes plenty of cycling at reasonable altitudes.
As the summer winds down in Montreal we are in the final throes of saying our good-byes, packing up and mentally preparing to get back on the saddle for a two month tour. The itinerary looks like this:
Start in Barcelona where our bikes and gear are stored and warm up with a week or so along the Coast Brava.
Then into Girona and make our way through the Spanish foothills to Vielha.
By week 3 we will need to have muscles and callouses in all the right places, because then we cross into France and over a series of high passes ending in Laruns.
I can already imagine the relaxing, week-long ride down and north to the Lot valley and then into Cahors.
Everything we read says that part of France is delightful so we should have no trouble finding routes to meander about until we end up in Toulouse at the end of October.
Departure from Montreal September 5th.
Already we are thankful to all the bloggers who have gone before us and described their journey, giving us invaluable information about the countryside that awaits. We will be glad to add our adventures to the collection and look forward to hearing from readers.
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And Cahors in mid-October! A nice enough place, but also interesting because we’re booked for three nights in Bouzies (just 17 miles up the Lot from Cahors) from 10/10-12. We might keep on each others’ radar this fall and see if we’re ever in the vicinity of each other.
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We would love to meet up with you. Sounds like our schedules are lining up perfectly. We hope it works out! Let’s connect again as we get closer to the dates.
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Have enjoyed reading your blogs. Just went back to read your summer 2019 of the Pyrenees - Bedous--A ride up to Lescun and hike to Lac Lahrs Wow! Will see if we make it there. We were planning to head down to Laruns but maybe we will have to do the Apse valley. It all looks so beautiful!
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