26 April 2010

Crossing the Pyrenees to Spain

We leave Lourdes in the morning and head off towards the mountains. We decide to take a smaller route through the Pyrenees over to Spain and stop in a little village just before the road becomes really windy to buy some yummy cheese and sausage from the region. We drive quite some time through a very narrow valley and the higher we get the more snow-top mountains we get to see. The route we take is also the route the pilgrims go on the way to Santiago, as we find out on our picnic spot by a little mountain river. We will be following the Camino de Santiago, as the pilgrimage is called in spanish, for quite some time.
As we reach the top, we have a beautiful view over the mountains and find still quite a bit of snow.
And here we are, in Spain, land of tapas and toreros ;)


Still on our way up.

On the top.

The border to Spain.

Spain!

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