Vacation September 2006 - Pyrenees
In late summer of 2006 I made a tour through the French Pyrenees. The tour led me from the
Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean Sea. Afterwards I spent a couple of quiet days at the sea in Gruissan
near Narbonne.
The tour stages:
- Stage 1: St. Jean-de-Luz - Espelette - l'Hopital-St-Blaise - Col d'Aubisque (1709 m) - Col de Soulor (1450 m) - Lourdes
- Stage 2: Lourdes - Col de Tourmalet (2115 m) - Col d'Aspin (1489 m) - Col de Peyresourde (1563 m) - Bagnerès-de-Luchon
- Stage 3: Bagnerès-de-Luchon - Col de Portet d'Aspet (1069 m) - Col de Port (1250 m) - Foix
- Stage 4: Foix - Col de Puymorens (1915 m) - Perpignan

St. Jean-de-Luz

Espelette

Mauleon-Licharre

l'Hopital-St-Blaise

Col de Tourmalet

Foix

Defile de la Faou

Perpignan

Narbonne

Gruissan
Michael Gentner, September 2006